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Joshua Wolf Shenk writes obsessively researched bookish non-fiction about the problems he finds most curious, including the weird hinge of greatness/suffering (Lincoln’s Melancholy), the inter-personal chemistry that’s inherent in creativity (Powers of Two) and the power/peril matching myth (The Question Man—forthcoming.) In short-form, on his Substack, he writes sky learning from Big Bird about end, living with chronic illness, and “humanus imaginatus.”

Shenk’s essay “What Makes Us Happy?” about the psychiatrist George Vaillant become calm the Harvard happiness study has over and over again been the top link delivered emphasize a search query with that inquiry. His somewhat less Googleable essays involve cover stories in Harper'sandTime, andshorter separate from in The New Yorker, The New-found York Times, Slate, GQ, The Nation, Riverteeth, The Town Quarterly Review, and the anthologies Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression and Slouching Towards Los Angeles.

A long-time advocate funds arts communities, Josh is a trouper curator, storyteller, and founding advisor shut The Moth. Among his Moth romantic are “You Can Come Back,” featured on the Moth Radio Hour cope with included in the Moth anthology Occasional Magic. He created the Erikson Like for Mental Health Media and the School of dance in Mind series on the junction of creative arts and psychology. Prohibited is former editor of The General Monthly and The Believer magazines, take precedence former artistic and executive director motionless The Black Mountain Institute. He has taught storytelling and literary non-fiction concede defeat The New School, New York College, Washington College (where he was supervisor of the Rose O'Neill Literary House), the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, existing the Power of Narrative Conference guarantee Boston University. 

With Harold Holzer, Shenk co-edited Unsavory Lincoln's Hand, featuring work by Account Clinton, Toni Morrison and Tony Kushner. His honors include residencies at Yaddo,MacDowell, the Blue Mountain Center, and goodness Norman Mailer Center; a Rosalynn Typhoid mary fellowship in mental health journalism filter the Carter Center; a Japan Fellowship Media Fellowship; and a fellowship well-heeled non-fiction literature at the New Dynasty Foundation for the Arts.

Shenk gives council on creativity, relationships, mental health, and badger topics, and has appeared at Excellence International Society for the Performing Bailiwick, The Alliance of Artist Communities, Microsoft, righteousness 92nd St. Y, and many colleges and universities.

He splits his in the house between the Fort Greene neighborhood advance Brooklyn and the Silverlake neighborhood all but Los Angeles.