About the Author

JOSHUA COHEN was born in 1980 in New Jersey. Splitting his time between New York and Prague, for a number of years he has worked as a journalist, essayist, and editor for many publications, including the Prague Pill, Prague Literary Review, and Czech Business Weekly. In New York he regularly contributes to the Forward and served as Arts Editor of New York Press. His short fiction has appeared in many journals and anthologies, such as Glimmer Train, Sleeping Fish, Fiction Warehouse, and The New Book of Masks (forthcoming 2006). He was awareded first prize in The Modern Word's 2003 Short Story Competition and short-listed for the Koret Foundation's prestigious 2004-2005 Young Writer on Jewish Themes Award. Cohen has a novel forthcoming with Fugue State Press in 2006.

Reviews

"In the hunt for the sensational sellers, the original and unique is forgotten, in short, what is even today the life-blood of literature: the independently creative artist and the independently publishing publisher, who sees it as his noblest task to discover works of value and publish them... Such is the Prague-based English-language publisher Twisted Spoon Press. - WEEKENDAVISEN, Copenhagen Twisted Spoon Press will be an influential step in re-establishing an international literary tradition in Prague absent for some 50 years. - CENTRAL EUROPEAN BUSINESS WEEKLY"