Joshua Hren is an artificer, father, and husband. He is founder of Wiseblood Books and co-founder of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of St. Thomas, Houston. Joshua regularly publishes essays and poems in such journals as The Los Angeles Review of Books and First Things, America, Public Discourse, New Polity, Genealogies of Modernity, Commonweal, The European Conservative, National Review, The University Bookman, and LOGOS.
Joshua has written seven books: the short story collections This Our Exile and In the Wine Press; a book of poems called 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; a novel Infinite Regress; and the theological-aesthetical manifesto Contemplative Realism.
Joshua has written seven books: the short story collections This Our Exile and In the Wine Press; a book of poems called 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; a novel Infinite Regress; and the theological-aesthetical manifesto Contemplative Realism.
Painting: "The Temptation of St. Anthony," by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
