Joseph Daniel Haske (born June 6, 1974 in Sault Saint Marie, Michigan) is an American writer, author of North Dixie Highway. [1] He received the 2011 Boulevard Emerging Writers Award for short fiction. [2]
Joseph Daniel Haske (born June 6, 1974 in Sault Saint Marie, Michigan) is an American writer, author of North Dixie Highway. [1] He received the 2011 Boulevard Emerging Writers Award for short fiction. [2]
Haske was born and raised in Sault Ste. Marie in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He attended Cedarville High School in Cedarville, Michigan, [3] [4] followed by Lake Superior State University where he graduated in 1999 with a BA in English. [5] Haske was fascinated by naturalist and modernist fiction, as well as Transcendentalist philosophy, which most reflected the way he saw himself in his natural environment.[ citation needed ] For a brief time, he joined the military and served in the infantry during the Clinton administration. When he returned, he completed his studies in English at Bowling Green State University. [3]
Haske moved in 2003 to McAllen, TX, where he began teaching at South Texas College, and he was the Chair of the English Department there for a few years. He completed an MFA at UTRGV (then PanAm University) in Edinburg, Texas. There, he started working on his first novel, North Dixie Highway, a book about the troubled youth of Buck Metzger, a "Yooper" like himself, who seeks to avenge the death of his grandfather. [6]
Haske wrote for a number of publications, including The Texas Review , [7] The Four-Way Review, [8] Pleiades , [9] Boulevard , [10] Fiction International , [11] Rampike, [12] etc. His work has been translated into French and Romanian and has appeared in Canadian and Romanian publications. He edits for various journals, including Sleipnir [13] and American Book Review. [14]
North Dixie Highway, (Oct 2013, Texas Review Press). This novel goes back and forth in time to show moments from the life of Buck Metzger and his colorful family: his intimidating grandfather, his intelligent grandmother, his rough uncle, his high class girlfriend, in a story of devotion, idealism, violence and tribal revenge. [15] [16]
He is married to Bertha, and has two children, Ferny and Joey. [5]
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