S1E5 -Lo-Fi Stories with Joshua Bohnsack

Joshua Bohnsack is the author of Shift Drink (Spork Press, forthcoming 2020) and Burnt Sienna: Cocktails & Stories (Throwback Books, 2017) and his work has appeared in The Rumpus, Hobart, SAND, LitHub, Five:2:One, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, and others. He is the founding editor of Long Day Press, a hand-bound chapbook publisher, an MFA graduate in creative writing at Northwestern University, the assistant managing editor for TriQuarterly, and former managing editor of Curbside Splendor Publishing.

He grew up on a farm and ran an ice cream shop in rural Illinois until he moved to Chicago. In addition to writing & publishing, he makes music.

He is featured on today's show where he reads his essay, Mountain, that was published on Vol. 1 Brooklyn. We also get a chance to rant about the band KISS, making your own indie music, and frenemies.

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