Joshua Hren is the 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. He currently serves as the St. Irenaeus Institute Scholar-in-Residence. Joshua’s writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books and First Things, The Hedgehog Review and America, Public Discourse and elsewhere.