Joshua Kryah is the author of two collections of poetry, We Are Starved (2011) and Glean (2007). He received his MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and his Ph.D. from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he was a Black Mountain Fellow in poetry. The recipient of an NEA creative writing fellowship in 2013, he has been the Thornton Writer-in-Residence at Lynchburg College and the Summer Poet in Residence at the University of Mississippi. His awards include a Short-Term Research Fellowship from the New York Public Library, the Michael W. Gearhart Prize from The Southwest Review, and the Third Coast Poetry Prize. He currently lives in St. Louis and teaches at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville.
While at MacDowell, he completed a draft of a third collection of poems in progress titled The World Is Too Much With Us, about the racial history of St. Louis. Poems from the collection have appeared in the New England Review, Poetry Northwest, and Prairie Schooner.
