Joshua Dewain Foster is an award-winning independent writer, thinker, and farmer in Rigby, Idaho. He is the author of The Crown Package: A Personal Anthology (2022) and The Clean Package: A Pioneer Assemblage (2023).

Josh earned a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Houston, a master’s degree in fiction and nonfiction from the University of Arizona, and an undergraduate degree in English from BYU Idaho. In between his master’s degree and PhD, Josh was selected as a Stanford University Stegner Fellow, one of the most prestigious creative writing fellowships in the world. Josh also earned a minor in Spanish and studied at the University of Guadalajara.

In his almost two-decade writing and publishing career, Josh has served in key editorial positions with notable magazines such as Terrain.org, DIAGRAM, and Gulf Coast. Josh now co-operates the creative cooperative and press FOSTER LITERARY with his wife, the poet Georgia Pearle Foster.

Today’s interview with Josh is unique for at least three reasons:

First, Josh has several advanced degrees, as do many past guests, but Josh’s degrees are in literature, making him the first literary fiction author I’ve had on the show.

Second, scheduling this interview with Josh was difficult because it's harvesting season, and Josh is a farmer.

Third, this episode is record-setting, coming in at nearly three hours. Josh is not only a professional storyteller, but also a professional observer of the human experience. And if anything, I wish our conversation were longer.

In this episode we laugh, we cry, and we discuss the profound melodramatic disorder (as Josh calls it) that we each suffer from.

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