Joe Chelius has published two collections of poems with WordTech Communications: The Art of Acquiescence (2014) and Crossing State Lines (2020). His new collection, Playing Fields, was published in May 2025 by Kelsay Books.

Joe was the 2000 Bucks County Poet Laureate and was the first-place winner of the inaugural Short Fiction Contest (2017) at Bucks County Community College. A retired editor in the healthcare communications industry, he and his wife have two grown children and have lived in Bucks County for 33 years.