Josh Emmons has written two novels, The Loss of Leon Meed and Prescription for a Superior Existence, which have been translated into several languages. With a Masters in Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he’s taught creative writing at Grinnell College, Monmouth University and Loyola University New Orleans, among other schools, and is currently a professor at U.C. Riverside. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, ZYZZYVA, Esquire, The American Scholar and The San Francisco Chronicle, and his stories have been honorably noted in The Best American Non-Required Reading. He is at work on a third novel and has published a short story collection entitled A Moral Tale and Other Moral Tales.
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