Joseph Daniel Haske (born June 6, 1974 in Sault Saint Marie, Michigan) is an American writer, author of North Dixie Highway.

[5] Haske was fascinated by naturalist and modernist fiction, as well as Transcendentalist philosophy, which most reflected the way he saw himself in his natural environment.

[3] Haske moved in 2003 to McAllen, TX, where he began teaching at South Texas College, and he was the Chair of the English Department there for a few years.

There, he started working on his first novel, North Dixie Highway, a book about the troubled youth of Buck Metzger, a "Yooper" like himself, who seeks to avenge the death of his grandfather.

This novel goes back and forth in time to show moments from the life of Buck Metzger and his colorful family: his intimidating grandfather, his intelligent grandmother, his rough uncle, his high class girlfriend, in a story of devotion, idealism, violence and tribal revenge.