Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Faculty

Josh Russell

Josh Russell is the Director of the Creative Writing Program at Georgia State University. He’s published three novels (Yellow Jack, My Bright Midnight, and A True History of the Captivation, Transport to Strange Lands, & Deliverance of Hannah Guttentag), two chapbooks, and more than eighty short stories and essays. He’s the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Prose, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Shane Stevens Fellowship in the Novel, and the Independent Publisher Book Award Bronze Medal for Literary Fiction.