[3][4][5] With the poet Sarah Gambito, he cofounded Kundiman, a national nonprofit organization that nurtures generations of writers and readers of Asian American literature.

[8] Joseph O. Legaspi received a poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

[11] In April 2019, Orion Magazine chose Legaspi's poem "The Three Sparrows" as one of its top seven works for National Poetry Month.

[8] Legaspi lives and works in New York City, where he serves on the faculty of Fordham University's Creative Writing Program.

Joseph O. Legaspi was born and raised in the Philippines; his family immigrated to Los Angeles when he was 12.