Joshua C. Gaines earned his Writing MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A runner up in The Iowa Review’s 2024 Jeff Sharlet prize, shortlisted for the 2024 Fractured Literature Flash Open Prize, and a two time Pushcart nominee, Joshua’s work has been published in The Iowa Review, The Pinch, Driftwood Press, Hobart, and in the UK’s Dark Mountain. His poetry book Cigarette Sonatas and novel Long Autumn were published by Thoughtcrime Press. He is a former Air Force Captain and is a member of Chuck Palahniuk’s writing workshop in Portland, Oregon where he lives with his wife Anna, and his fifteen-year-old daughter, Ella Lorien Gaines.

Josh can be contacted by finding him in person on random nights at The Rose City Book Pub.