Website of Josef Miyasato

Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

About Josef Miyasato

"Strange fictions tell strangled truths."

Josef Firmage Miyasato is the author of the chapbook The Portable Manimal Fiction (2007) and the story collection The Anti-Hero & The Disciple (2018). His fiction and poetry have appeared in The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review, Prick of the Spindle, Cold Drill, Anemone Sidecar, Wayfare, and other journals. His honors include the President's Writing Award, the Olive Woolley Burt Award, the Spark Award, and a Pushcart Prize nomination. He holds a BA in English from Boise State University and attended the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop. He lives in Provo, Utah, and is at work on a novel.

His fiction is concerned with faith, alienation, grace, and the strange places the sacred hides. His influences include Fyodor Dostoevsky, Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, Denis Johnson, and the language of scripture.

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The Anti-Hero & The Disciple

A collection of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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Praise for The Anti-Hero & The Disciple

"With a mix of poetry and prose, Josef Miyasato captivates with moments of surrealism and bursts of raw but beautiful language. "After a fight, I climb into my bathtub and look inside my brain. It is mostly gray like an old Chevy coughing up exhaust." To those whose hearts, minds, chests, or brains are void of light and life, Miyasato offers meditations and stories on good and evil that explore the filling, fulfilling, and cleansing of the human cavity."

Tacey M. Atsitty, author of Rain Scald

And the Word will take away your stony heart for a new heart. And from that stone you will build a new house to shelter and grow your infant heart of flesh.