Joseph VanBuren has had his poetry and fiction published in Confluence, Ink Cloud, and the survival anthology Life on a Tightrope; written, performed, and/or produced hundreds of globally distributed songs; opened up for national acts such as Rehab, Anybody Killa, Liquid Assassin, Razakel, Lil Wyte, Scum, and 2 Live Crew; and had one of his tracks played on The Colbert Report. Spawned from the Hudson Valley, New York, he now studies English and Psychology in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he lives with his beloved fiancée and adorably neurotic dog. His current projects include getting a bachelor’s degree and creating a multi-media post-apocalyptic horror experience, beginning with his upcoming poetry chapbook + soundtrack, Mask: Shadow, to be released on Halloween 2017. "Though my interests are a spectrum, my specialty is creative writing of the dark and disturbing variety that often comments on social issues and taps into the psychological struggles of the human condition. I am sort of like the gothic Saul Williams: a semi-surreal sorcerer of sentence and sound, invoking the insight into insanity and human horror of Edgar Allen Poe, the lyrical rhythm and raw realism of The Wu-Tang Clan, and the whimsically dismal atmosphere of Tim Burton."

Released the poetry chapbook The Consciousness Conspiracy (Remix) vol. 1, 2017.

Received "Honorable Mention" for the Rhyming Poetry category of the Writer’s Digest 85th Annual Writing Competition, 2016.

Received "Judge Favorite" for two poems in the 2016 Ink Cloud Poetry and Art Contest.