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 The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review, Prick of the Spindle, The Fix, Cold Drill, Anemone Sidecar, and Wayfare. His honors include the President’s Writing Award, the Olive Woolley Burt Award, the Spark Award, and a Pushcart nomination.
Miyasato grew up in Boise, Idaho, and lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. He studied creative writing at Boise State University and attended the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop. He is currently at work on a novel.
Miyasato's fiction is shaped by experience with the numinous and the language and symbolic imagination of scripture. His writing explores faith, alienation, grace, and the strange places the sacred hides. His literary influences include Fyodor Dostoevsky, Flannery O’Connor, Bruno Schulz, Chaim Potok, Walker Percy, and Denis Johnson. He is currently at work on a novel.
