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Founding Director

Joshua N. K. Rolnick

Josh Rolnick’s short story collection, Pulp and Paper, won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award. His short stories have also won the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize and The Florida Review Editors’ Choice Prize, and have been published in Boulevard, Meridian, Harvard Review, Bellingham Review, Gulf Coast, and others. His most recent short story, “Kindertransport,” was published in Paper Brigade, the literary annual of the Jewish Book Council. Rolnick’s poem about the hostages left behind in Gaza, “But Not the Fathers,” was published in the Tel Aviv Review of Books; his essay about his daughter’s elementary school lockdown drills appeared in Slate. He is a faculty lecturer at the Johns Hopkins MA in Writing Program and fiction editor of Paper Brigade. Rolnick currently serves as the Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Jewish Book Council, Chair of the Learning and Action Collaborative, and co-chair of the Jewish Democratic Council of America’s Taskforce on Evaluation and Impact. He is a facilitator for Resetting the Table, promoting courageous conversations across political divides.