Joshua Hren

Joshua Hren is founder and editor of Wiseblood Books, co-founder of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of St. Thomas, Houston, and co-founder of the Great Books Honors College at Belmont Abbey. He currently serves as Scholar-in-Residence at the St. Irenaeus Institute for Catholic Thought. His full-length books include fictional works This Our Exile, In the Wine Press, Infinite Regress, and Blue Walls Falling Down; a poetry collection, Last Things, First Things, & Other Lost Causes; nonfiction works Middle-earth and the Return of the Common Good: J.R.R. Tolkien and Political Philosophy How to Read (and Write) Like a Catholic and Faith in the Furnace of Doubt: Dana Gioia’s Visionary Poetics; and the theological-aesthetical manifesto Contemplative Realism.