Joseph Chinnock has had an eclectic career including three years working in the Himalayas with traditional Tibetan doctors to bring Tibetan Medicine to the US to raise funds to support small traditional medical schools in high altitude villages.
He is currently the director of WordSmiths, a consortium of Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduates. He has been published in The Gettysburg Review, The Southeast Review, The Dirty Napkin and the Chicago Tribune. An essay he wrote on teens tried as adults in the judicial system was featured in The Best American Essays in 2013.
He is the director of The Navajo Bee Project that is bringing honeybee hives to Navajo people harmed by decades of uranium mining. The first honeybee hive give away and training took place on August 2, 2015 at a permaculture farm on The Navajo Nation and was a great success.
His novel, The Alchemy of Nourishment is a semi-finalist for The James Jones Fellowship for First Novels. His second novel, The Great Game is about a Hindu Sherlock Holmes who uses Hindu logic to solve crimes during the British Raj. In his free time he writes, reads, drinks way too much espresso and listens to New Order.
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