Joshua Hren is founder and editor of Wiseblood Books, and co-founder of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of St. Thomas, Houston, and was co-founder of the Great Books Honors College at Belmont Abbey. Joshua’s writing has appeared in such journals as The Los Angeles Review of Books and First Things, America and Public Discourse, The Hedgehog Review and Portico. Joshua is the author of ten books, including the novels Infinite Regress and Blue Walls Falling Down as well as Faith in the Furnace of Doubt: Dana Gioia’s Visionary Poetics (Catholic University of America Press, 2026) and More than a Matter of Taste: The Moral Imagination and the Spirit of Literature (Word on Fire, 2026). His book Testing the Spirits: Finding Faith in Contemporary Fiction, is due out in 2027, as is his novel The Hôtel-Dieu: A Novel. Joshua received the 2026 St. Edith Stein Excellence in Research Award from the University of St. Thomas, and he currently serves as Scholar-in-Residence at Milwaukee’s St. Irenaeus Institute.