Josef Firmage Miyasato
About Josef Miyasato
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. His honors include the President’s Writing Award, the Olive Woolley Burt Award, and the Spark Award, as well as a Pushcart Prize nomination.
Miyasato grew up in Boise, Idaho, and lives in Provo, Utah. He holds a BA in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing from Boise State University and attended the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop. He has participated in the Pocket MFA program since 2025.
His fiction is shaped by the language and symbolic imagination of scripture and explores faith, alienation, grace, and the strange places the sacred hides. His literary influences include Fyodor Dostoevsky, Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, and Denis Johnson. He is currently at work on a novel.
