Josh Emmons, MFA
Assistant Professor
Graduate Faculty
MFA, Iowa Writers' Workshop
BA, Oberlin College
Office: Wilson Annex, Room 501
Phone: 732-571-7548
Email: jemmons@monmouth.edu
Spring 2013 Office Hours:
Spring 2013 Courses:
EN 251 - Creative Writing: Intro
EN 451- Advanced Creative Writing
EN 607- Seminar: CW Non-Fiction
Regularly Taught Courses:
EN 251 - Creative Writing: Into
EN 451 - Advanced Creative Writing
EN 611 - Seminar: Fiction Writing
EN 202 - Literature II
Research Interests:
Selected Works:
Books:
NOVELS: Prescription for a Superior Existence (Scribner 2008, translation in Turkish) The Loss of Leon Meed (Scribner 2005, translations in Hebrew, French, Dutch, German) BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS: The Secret Miracle: A Novelist’s Handbook (Henry Holt 2010) Naming the World: And Other Creative Writing Exercises (Random House 2008) Dirty Words: An Anthology of Erotic Terms (Bloomsbury 2008)
Popular Press:
SHORT STORIES AND NON-FICTION: The American Scholar, The New York Times Book Review, The San Francisco Chronicle, Details, FiveChapters, People, Canteen, Prism, Esquire.com, Cutbank, San Francisco Magazine, Powells.com
