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 First Things, America, Public Discourse, Commonweal, The European Conservative, National Review, Catholic World Report, New Oxford Review, University Bookman, Law & Liberty, The Lamp, 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
