Josh Emmons

Who is Josh Emmons?

Josh Emmons is an American novelist who currently lives in Philadelphia. A graduate of Oberlin College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he published his first book, The Loss of Leon Meed, in 2005. Set in his native northern California, about the varied responses of ten small-town residents to a stranger's mysterious appearances and disappearances, it was a Book Sense pick and winner of a James Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award, and has been translated into several languages. His second, Prescription for a Superior Existence, which explores the intersections of faith, religion and desire, came out in 2008. His fiction and non-fiction have been published in various magazines and newspapers.

Emmons has taught at the University of the Arts, Loyola University Chicago, the University of Iowa, Whitman College, and elsewhere. He currently teaches at Grinnell College in Iowa.