Joshua Bodwell is a freelance editor and writer. He has new work forthcoming in The American Scholar and The Paris Review.

He served as the executive director of the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance for nearly a decade before becoming the editorial director of Godine and Black Sparrow Press. He’s acquired and edited work by authors such as Joan Baez, Ann Beattie, Jane Brox, Shaun Bythell, Brock Clarke, Wanda Coleman, Andre Dubus III, Meredith Hall, Terrance Hayes, Chaney Kwak, Thomas Lynch, Nina MacLaughlin, Wesley McNair, Michael Mewshaw, Billy O’Callaghan, Martin Pengelley, Lincoln Perry, Richard Rodriguez, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Simon Van Booy, Alec Wilkinson, Geoffrey Wolff, Monica Wood, John Yau, and many others.  

Bodwell’s fiction and nonfiction have appeared in magazines and quarterlies such as Fiction Writers Review, Glimmer Train, Los Angeles Review of Books, Poets & Writers, The Threepenny Review, Slice, and Zyzzyva. His journalism has garnered awards from the Maine and New England press associations. He was awarded the 2015 Marianne Russo Award from the Key West Literary Seminar.

He lives on the coast of Maine with his wife, Tamsyn, a ceramicist and ceramic studio owner.