Joshua Dewain Foster is a homegrown writer of the Intermountain West, almost always existing in southeastern Idaho on the family farm and ranch, but also having voyaged for community and education to premiere creative enclaves: the University of Arizona (MFA ’08), the University of Houston (PhD ’19), Stanford University (Stegner Fellow ’12), and BYU-Idaho (’06); has published his short stories and essays in various literary journals, magazines, and zines including Tin House, Fugue, South Loop Review, DIAGRAM, and many more; been awarded and nominated for awards, grants, and fellowships by the Idaho Commission on the Arts, Inprint Houston, Stanford University, and the Association of Mormon Letters; as well as having edited for various publications, gratefully starting back in 2008 as Terrain.org’s first section editor, but also in the last decade with Gulf Coast and DIAGRAM and on Terrain.org’s Editorial Board. Currently, Josh lives in Idaho with the poet Georgia Pearle and her children and their many pets, working and writing about the unique arid West and its dusty, wind-blown people. Connect with him on social media or visit his website joshuadewainfoster.com to check out his latest.
