Joshua Hren is founder of Wiseblood Books and co-founder of the Honors College at Belmont Abbey where he teaches and writes at the intersection of Christianity and culture. He has published essays and poems in such journals as First Things, America, and LOGOS. His books include the short story collections This Our Exile and In the Wine Press, as well as Middle-earth and the Return of the Common Good: Tolkien and Political Philosophy. Joshua's first novel is forthcoming.
