Joshua Idaszak is a writer living in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Arkansas. His fiction has won Boulevard magazine's 2015 Short Fiction Contest, was named a finalist for the Chicago Tribune 2015 Nelson Agren Award, and was listed as Distinguished by Best American Mystery Stories 2017. He was recently named the winner of Poets & Writers'  Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award. His stories appear in Kenyon Review, Triquarterly, and elsewhere.