Joel Velasquez Soto is a writer and poet exploring what happens after the life you thought you were going to live falls apart.
His work explores love, loss, masculinity, and identity. In his debut poetry collection TOO MUCH: Poems by a Broken Boy, Joel traces the collapse of a relationship, the self-destruction that follows and the painful process of rebuilding a life afterward.
In his personal essays and fiction, Joel writes for people trying to make meaning out of the mess life gives without pretending the process is straightforward. In his newsletter Letters from the Arena, he focuses on the struggle, endurance and the work of surviving daily life.
