Joshua Bell

Lecturer

Joshua Bell’s first book is No Planets Strike, Zoo Press/University of Nebraska Press, 2005.  He received his M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was a Teaching-Writing Fellow and Paul Engle Postgraduate Fellow.  He was the Diane Middlebrook Fellow at the University of Wisconsin's Creative Writing Institute, 2003-04, and in the Summer of 2006 was a Walter Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writer's Conference.  His poems have appeared in such magazines as 9th Letter, Boston Review, Hotel Amerika, Indiana Review, Triquarterly, Verse, and Volt.  His poems have been reprinted in such recent anthologies as Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande) and Imaginary Poets: 22 Master Poets Create 22 Master Poets (Tupelo Press).  New poems are forthcoming in the anthologies The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (St. Martin's) and Third Rail: Rock and Roll Poetry (MTV Books).  While at Columbia, he is finishing his doctoral dissertation for the University of Cincinnati, where he was University Distinguished Graduate Fellow.