Joshua Boettiger is Rosh Yeshiva (Head of School) at the Center for Contemporary Mussar, and Jewish chaplain and visiting assistant professor of the humanities at Bard College. He was a finalist for the American Poetry Review's Gerald Stern Prize (2025) and his poetry has appeared in many journals. His essays have appeared in Parabola, Evolve, and Zeek. Boettiger also teaches at Ritualwell, and often serves as a scholar-in-residence and leads Jewish meditation retreats. He has an MFA in poetry and a masters in Hebrew Letters/rabbinic ordination. He lives in the Hudson Valley of New York.