Philadelphia Novelist Josh Emmons Will Read from His Work and Discuss Writing at Ursinus College

Josh Emmons, a novelist who currently lives in Philadelphia, will
read new work and answer questions about writing at Ursinus College April 1 at
7:30 p.m. The event, open to the public, is in the Lenfest Theater in the
Kaleidoscope Performing Arts Center.

A graduate of Oberlin College and the Iowa Writers'
Workshop (2002), he published his first book, The Loss of Leon Meed, in
2005, which was a Book Sense pick and winner of a James Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award. His
second novel, Prescription for a Superior Existence, which explores the
intersections of faith, religion and desire, was published in 2008. His fiction
and non-fiction have been published in various magazines and newspapers such as
The New York Times Book
Review, Esquire, and The San Francisco Chronicle.

Emmons has taught at the University of the Arts, Loyola
University Chicago, the University of Iowa, Grinnell and Whitman colleges, and
elsewhere.