Joseph Geha
b. 1944
Biography
Born in Lebanon and raised in the USA, Joseph Geha is the author of Through and Through: Toledo Stories (Graywolf; St. Paul; 1990), a collection of short stories inspired by his experiences growing up in an émigré Arab American community. In 2009, Syracuse University Press published a second (expanded) edition.
His novel, Lebanese Blonde (University of Michigan Press), will be published in August, 2012.
Joe's work has appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies, including Epoch, Esquire, The New York Times, The Northwest Review, Homeground, The Iowa Review, Oxford Magazine, The Amherst Review, Kaleidoscope, A Nation's Voice, The New Virginia Review, Growing up Ethnic in America, Big City Cool, Homeground, and The Quarterly.
He was granted a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His fiction has been awarded the Pushcart Prize and chosen for inclusion in the Permanent Collection, Arab-American Archive, of the Smithsonian Institution.
Married to novelist Fern Kupfer, Joe lives in Ames, Iowa, where he is a professor emeritus of the Creative Writing Program at Iowa State University.
His novel, Lebanese Blonde (University of Michigan Press), will be published in August, 2012.
Joe's work has appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies, including Epoch, Esquire, The New York Times, The Northwest Review, Homeground, The Iowa Review, Oxford Magazine, The Amherst Review, Kaleidoscope, A Nation's Voice, The New Virginia Review, Growing up Ethnic in America, Big City Cool, Homeground, and The Quarterly.
He was granted a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His fiction has been awarded the Pushcart Prize and chosen for inclusion in the Permanent Collection, Arab-American Archive, of the Smithsonian Institution.
Married to novelist Fern Kupfer, Joe lives in Ames, Iowa, where he is a professor emeritus of the Creative Writing Program at Iowa State University.
Books by Joseph Geha
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