Joshua Hren

Joshua Hren is founder of Wiseblood Books and co-founder of the new Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of St. Thomas, Houston. Joshua has published numerous essays and poems in such journals as First Things and America, Public Discourse and LOGOS. His books include: Infinite Regress: A Novel (Angelico 2022); This Our Exile: Short Stories (Angelico 2018); Middle-earth and the Return of the Common Good: J.R.R. Tolkien and Political Philosophy (Cascade 2018); In the Wine Press: Short Stories (Angelico 2020); How to Read and Write Like a Catholic (TAN 2021); Last Things, First Things, & Other Lost Causes: Poems (Little Gidding 2022); and the theological-aesthetical manifesto Contemplative Realism (Benedict XVI Institute 2022).