Joseph Hurka

Joseph Hurka is the author of the novel Before, from Thomas Dunne Books/​St. Martin’s Press, and the memoir Fields of Light, winner of the Pushcart Editors’ Book Award. Hurka was educated at Bradford College, where he studied with the short story master, Andre Dubus, and at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His short stories have been published in numerous literary quarterlies. He lives in southern New Hampshire, and teaches at Tufts University and Emerson College.