Website of Josef Miyasato
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About Josef Miyasato
"Strange fictions tell strangled truths."
Josef Firmage Miyasato is the author of the chapbook The Portable Manimal Fiction (2007) and the collection The Anti-Hero & The Disciple (2018). His work has appeared in journals including The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review, Prick of the Spindle, Cold Drill, Anemone Sidecar, and Wayfare, among others. His honors include the President’s Writing Award, the Olive Woolley Burt Award, and the Spark Award, and he has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Miyasato grew up in Boise, Idaho and lives in Provo, Utah. He holds a B.A. in English, Creative Writing from Boise State University and attended the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop. He has also been involved with the Pocket MFA program since 2025.
His fiction explores the human condition in the tradition of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, Denis Johnson, and the language of holy scripture. He is currently at work on a novel.
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The Anti-Hero & The Disciple
Praise for The Anti-Hero & The Disciple
"With a mix of poetry and prose, Josef Miyasato captivates with moments of surrealism and bursts of raw but beautiful language. "After a fight, I climb into my bathtub and look inside my brain. It is mostly gray like an old Chevy coughing up exhaust." To those whose hearts, minds, chests, or brains are void of light and life, Miyasato offers meditations and stories on good and evil that explore the filling, fulfilling, and cleansing of the human cavity."
Tacey M. Atsitty, author of Rain Scald
And the Word will take away your stony heart for a new heart. And from that stone you will build a new house to shelter and grow your infant heart of flesh.
Riffing on Ezekiel
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