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Joshua Hren is a novelist, critic, father, and husband. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Wiseblood Books and Co-Founder of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. He regularly publishes essays and poems in publications like The Los Angeles Review of Books, First Things, America, Public Discourse, New Polity, The Hedgehog Review, Genealogies of Modernity, Commonweal, National Review, The University Bookman, Religion and Literature, and Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture.
Joshua is the author of ten books, including the short story collections This Our Exile and In the Wine Press; a book of poems called Last Things, First Things, & Other Lost Causes; Middle-Earth and the Return of the Common Good: J.R.R. Tolkien and Political Philosophy; How to Read (and Write) Like a Catholic; the novel Infinite Regress; and the theological-aesthetical manifesto Contemplative Realism. Joshua's More than a Matter of Taste: The Moral Imagination and the Spirit of Literature and Faith in the Furnace of Doubt: Dana Gioia's Poetics of Belief are forthcoming. His second novel, Blue Walls Falling Down, will be published in October of 2024.
Joshua is at work on two novels: The Hôtel-Dieu (the third in a trilogy) and The Death of Constantine.
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Sally Thomas is a poet and fiction writer. Born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1964, she holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Vanderbilt University and has pursued graduate coursework in English and Creative Writing at the University of Memphis and the University of Utah. She has taught in both the high-school and the university classroom and in an online program for home-educated students.
She is the author of two poetry chapbooks. Her full-length poetry book, Motherland, was a finalist for the Able Muse Book Award. Her debut novel, Works of Mercy, was published to notable acclaim in 2022 and The Blackbird & Other Stories appeared in 2024. With Micah Mattix she is Co-Editor of a poetry anthology, Christian Poetry in America Since 1940. She is former Associate Poetry Editor of The New York Sun.
Over the past three decades, her writing has appeared in Anglican Theological Review, Dappled Things, Ekstasis, First Things, The New Yorker, North American Anglican, The New Republic, Plough Quarterly, Presence, Public Discourse, Southern Poetry Review, Sonora Review, THINK, Windhover, and many other journals in the U.S. and U.K. Her poetry and fiction have received awards from the Associated Writing Programs, the Academy of American Poets, the North Carolina Literary Review, and Relief: A Journal of Art and Faith.
Sally lives with her family in North Carolina.
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