Joshua Cohen

Joshua Cohen was born in 1980 in New Jersey. He lived in Prague for a number of years, working as a journalist, essayist and editor for many publications, including the Prague Pill, Prague Literary Review, Czech Business Weekly, and Aufbau. His fiction has appeared in many journals -- such as Sleeping Fish, Fiction Warehouse, Zeek -- and anthologies, most recently in Text: UR - The New Book of Masks (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2007). A recipient of first prize in The Modern Word's 2003 Short Story Contest and short-listed for the Koret Foundation's prestigious 2005 Young Writer on Jewish Themes Award, Cohen now resides in New York, where he is a regular contributor to The Forward. He is the author of A Heaven of Others and Aleph-Bet, An Alphabet for the Perplexed. Cohen was awarded a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Netanyahus.