Joshua Clover is a poet, scholar, critic, and journalist, born in 1962 in Berkeley, California.He has published three volumes of poetry: Red Epic (2015), The Totality for Kids (2006), and Madonna anno domini (1997). He has written three books of cultural and political theory: Riot.Strike.Riot (2016), 1989: Bob Dylan Didn’t Have This to Sing About (2009), and The Matrix (2005). 

Currently he is a professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, Davis, and a columnist for The Nation and Ny Tid, in Norway. He is a founding editor of Commune Editions.