Josh Barkan
Josh Barkan won the Lightship International Short Story Prize and was runner-up for the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, the Paterson Fiction Prize, and the Juniper Prize for Fiction. He is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and his writing has appeared in Esquire. He received his B.A. from Yale University and his M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He has taught writing at Harvard, Boston University, NYU, Hollins University, and the International Writing Program at The University of Iowa.
His books include Before Hiroshima: The Confession of Murayama Kazuo and Other Stories; Blind Speed: a novel; Wonder Travels: a memoir; and Mexico: stories (Hogarth/Penguin Random House). Mexico was selected as one of the five best story collections of 2017 by Library Journal, after receiving excellent reviews from The New York Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Huffington Post, LitHub, and a variety of others. Barkan lives in Boston with the writer Jennifer Haigh.
