[citation needed] Joshua Furst's novel The Sabotage Café was named to the 2007 year-end best-of lists of the Chicago Tribune, the Rocky Mountain News and the Philadelphia City Paper, as well as being awarded the 2008 Grub Street Fiction Prize.
A frequent contributor to The Jewish Daily Forward, he has also been published in The Chicago Tribune,[3] Conjunctions,[4] PEN America,[5] Five Chapters[6][7] and The New York Tyrant among many other journals and periodicals and been given citations for notable achievement by The Best American Short Stories and The O’Henry Awards.
His work has received a 2001-2002 James Michener-Paul Engle Fellowship from the James Michener Foundation/Copernicus Society of America, a Chicago Tribune Nelson Algren Award,[8] and a Walter E. Dakins Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.
He helped organize and run Nada Theatre’s 1995 Obie award winning Faust Festival and was one of the producers of the 1998 New York RAT Conference[9] which brought experimental theatre artists from across the United States together for a week of performance and symposia.
Joshua Furst lives in New York City, and teaches at The New School’s Eugene Lang College.