Josh Russell teaches graduate and undergraduate fiction and nonfiction writing and craft classes. His novel Yellow Jack was chosen as one of Barnes & Noble.com’s Best Books of the Year and shortlisted for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award. His short fiction has appeared in more than three-dozen literary magazines, best-of collections, and anthologies, including the Antioch Review, Epoch, New Stories from the South, and French Quarter Fiction. His nonfiction, pedagogy, and reviews have been published in the Times-Picayune, Red Mountain Review, Exquisite Corpse, the New Orleans Review, and Rules of Thumb. He is the recipient of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Shane Stevens Fellowship in the Novel, and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship.

Selected Publications:



Dakota. Epoch, Volume 53, Number 3, 2004. (Novella)

Yellow Jack. W.W. Norton & Company, 1999. (Novel)

Winter on Fifth Avenue, New York. Oat City Press, 1997. (Limited Edition)