Joshua Hren is an artificer, father, and husband. He is founder and editor 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 and Public Discourse, New Polity and The Hedgehog Review, Genealogies of Modernity and Commonweal, National Review and The University Bookman, and Religion and Literature and LOGOS.
Joshua has published 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's More than a Matter of Taste: The Moral Imagination and the Spirit of Literature is forthcoming in 2026. His second novel, Blue Walls Falling Down, is forthcoming in 2024.
Joshua is at work on two novels: The Hôtel-Dieu (the third in a trilogy) and The Death of Constantine.
Joshua has published 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's More than a Matter of Taste: The Moral Imagination and the Spirit of Literature is forthcoming in 2026. His second novel, Blue Walls Falling Down, is forthcoming in 2024.
Joshua is at work on two novels: The Hôtel-Dieu (the third in a trilogy) and The Death of Constantine.
Painting: "The Temptation of St. Anthony," by Pieter Bruegel the Elder