Joshua Hren, novelist and critic, is founder of Wiseblood Books and co-founder of the MFA at the University of St. Thomas. He regularly publishes essays and poems in such journals as The Los Angeles Review of Books and First Things, America, National Review, Public Discourse, and The Hedgehog Review. Joshua is the author of ten books, including the novels Infinite Regress and Blue Walls Falling Down; the short story collections This Our Exile and In the Wine Press; the book of poems 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; Contemplative Realism; and (forthcoming) More than a Matter of Taste: The Moral Imagination and the Spirit of Literature.
