Josh Emmons
American writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Josh Emmons is an American novelist who was raised in Northern California. He studied at UC Santa Cruz, Oberlin College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop . Emmons has an MFA from University of Iowa, from which he also received a teaching fellowship. Emmons 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 latest book, "A Moral Tale and Other Moral Tales," comes out April 2017 by Dzanc. His fiction and non-fiction have been published in various magazines and newspapers.
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