Joshua DolezalJoshua Dolezal

Joshua Doležal writes The Recovering Academic, a Substack newsletter, and has been featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Kenyon Review, and The Missouri Review. He is the author of a memoir, Down from the Mountaintop: From Belief to Belonging, shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize, and a poetry collection, Someday Johnson Creek. To learn more about his coaching and editing services, visit www.joshuadolezal.com.

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