Who was the so-called 'poet of the locusts' and chronicler of devastation behind the Book of Joel?

We know very little about Joel, the son of Petuel. Since there are no chronological indications in his writings, scholars have great difficulty in establishing the period in which he would have prophesied (between the ninth and second centuries BC).

He is called “the poet of the locusts” because his book opens with a lament for a disastrous invasion of them: “What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten” (Joel 1:4).