author. poet. memoirist. live storyteller.

Joshua Levy grew up in Montreal, Canada. He has lived in Ottawa, Edmonton, Toronto, London (in England and Canada), and in Lisbon, before returning to Montreal.

Levy uses a multi-disciplinary approach; incorporating elements of poetry, fiction, memoir, history, and often audio, illustration, and photography, to explore the intersection between people, place, time, and memory.

His writing has appeared in The Malahat Review, Maisonneuve, the Ex-Puritan, the Rumpus, Event, Grain, Queen’s Quarterly, Prairie Fire, Antigonish Review, Taddle Creek, Feathertale Review, The Rumpus, among other places, and been anthologized in the Oxford University Press and Vehicule Press. A frequent guest on CBC, he tells stories at festivals and events across Canada, judges literary competitions in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, and teaches writing workshops.

His honours include winning the CBC/QWF Fiction Prize, Prairie Fire Nonfiction Prize, Curt Johnson Prose Award in Fiction, CNFC/Carte Blanche Nonfiction Prize, Grain Fiction Prize, Los Angeles Review Fiction Prize, and SLS Nonfiction Prize, and short-listed for the Montreal International Poetry Prize (three times) CBC Nonfiction Prize, Bath Short Fiction Prize, Sean O’Faolain Short Story Competition, Tennessee Williams Fiction Prize, Curt Johnson Prose Award in Fiction, the Florida Review Editor’s Award for Fiction, Dillydoun International Fiction Prize, Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition, Vallum Poetry Chapbook Prize, Disquiet Nonfiction Prize, and Barry Lopez Nonfiction Prize.

Levy recently served as CBC’s Writer-in-Residence. Join his 85,000 engaged followers on Instagram for the latest news. He is a member of the Writers’ Union of Canada and the Quebec Writers’ Federation.

His debut book of poetry, The Loudest Thing, was published by Mansfield Press. Levy is currently working on his debut novel.