Joshua Barkan

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Joshua Barkan spent much of his childhood living in Kenya, Tanzania, France and India. After attending Yale University, he spent a year teaching in Japan. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and lives with his wife in New York City. Before Hiroshima, his collection of novella and stories, was published in 2000. His work has been translated into French and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He has taught creative writing for the University of Iowa and at Boston University. In 2006, he was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship award.