Our dock serves as harbor to diverse vessels of literature: minimalist or stream of consciousness; philosophical thriller or epistolary novel; collection of vignettes or thousand-page opus; formalist poetry or political memoir; journalistic essays or academic scholarship. We seek contemporary fiction and poetry that inherits and inhabits: the sublimity and universality of such epic works as Homer's Iliad, Virgil's Aeneid, and Dante's Divine Comedy; of works as demanding as Joyce's Ulysses or Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!; of works as historically-conscious as Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago or Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter; of works as polyphonic as Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov; of verse devoted to the preservation of form in an age of unmaking; of works as complexly comic as David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest or Flannery O' Connor's Wise Blood. Our devotion to the life of the mind makes us watchful for works that reach the roots of fundamental questions, that turn to the almost three-thousand-year-long conversations committed to these questions, and that incite our hunger for the splendor of truth.
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Editor-in-Chief
Joshua Hren, Ph.D. joshua@wisebloodbooks.com |
Joshua Hren is founder and editor-in-chief of Wiseblood Books. He is also co-founder of the MFA at the University of St. Thomas, Houston. Joshua has published reviews, essays, and poems in such journals as LOGOS, First Things, America, Commonweal, National Review, New Oxford Review, The University Bookman, Public Discourse, and Presence, and short stories in numerous literary magazines. Joshua is the author of Middle-earth and the Return of the Common Good: J.R.R. Tolkien and Political Philosophy (Cascade 2018); This Our Exile (Angelico 2018) which received an Honorable Mention in the 2018 Christianity and Literature Book of the Year Award; In the Wine Press (Angelico 2020), which won First Place in the 2020 Catholic Media Association Book Award (Anthologies); as well as How to Read (and Write) Like a Catholic (TAN 2021); the novel Infinite Regress; and the book of poems Last Things, First Things, & Other Lost Causes. His book Fugitive Faith: Dana Gioia and Poetry that Matters is under consideration.
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Managing Editor
Louis B. Maltese louis@wisebloodbooks.com |
Our young squire received his Joint Masters in Philosophy and Theology from Boston College where he also served as the Managing Book Review Editor for The Journal of Jesuit Studies. He was the '12 Classical Studies Editor for Vexillum: The UW Journal of Classical and Medieval Studies and the '14 Junior Editor for Athos: PSU Honors Journal. He has written on the fiction of Walker Percy and modernity.
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Operations Manager
Brittney Hren wisebloodbooks@gmail.com Copyeditors & Student Interns |
Brittney is, among a litany of things, the architect of thoughtfulness and order.
We are grateful for to the very fine work of our copyeditors and student interns who help keep our press alive. |
