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- For the playwright born 1983, see Joshua Harmon (playwright).
Joshua Harmon (born 1971) is an American poet, novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He is the author of an essay collection, The Annotated Mixtape (2014); a short fiction collection, History of Cold Seasons (2014); a novel, Quinnehtukqut (2007); and two collections of poems, Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie (2011) and Scape (2009).
Life and work
Harmon was born and raised in Massachusetts. He was educated at Marlboro College, from which he graduated with highest honors, and at Cornell University, where he earned an MFA in fiction.
Quinnehtukqut, excerpts of which were awarded a 2004 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in prose, was short-listed for the 2008 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie was awarded the 2010 Akron Poetry Prize by judge G.C. Waldrep and published in the Akron Series in Poetry. Harmon's writing has appeared in various periodicals, including Antioch Review, The Believer, Black Warrior Review, New England Review, TriQuarterly, and Verse.
Harmon has taught at Vassar College, where he was also the 2013 Writer-in-Residence.