Joshua Hren is founder of Wiseblood Books and co-founder of the MFA at the University of St. Thomas, Houston. He regularly publishes essays and poems in First Things, America, Public Discourse, the Hedgehog Review, and LOGOS. His books include the short story collections This Our Exile (2018) and In the Wine Press (2020), the novel Infinite Regress (2022), as well as Middle-earth and the Return of the Common Good: Tolkien and Political Philosophy (2018), How to Read (and Write) Like a Catholic (2021), and Contemplative Realism (2022). His first book of poems, Last Things, First Things, & Other Lost Causes, is forthcoming from Little Gidding Press.
