Wilshire Sun

Born in 1984, Joshua Baldwin grew up in New York City, graduated from the University of Chicago, and now lives in Brooklyn. He is the author of an illustrated chapbook, Poems and Fake Book Reviews, which included a poem that became a semifinalist for the 3 Quarks Daily Arts and Literature Prize. Baldwin’s poetry and criticism have also appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Chicago Review, Colorado Review, Publishers Weekly, and elsewhere.

“Baldwin’s characters search for fame in the shape-shifting landscape of Hollywood. He has a voice that follows the mirage even after it disappears. The Wilshire Sun is a surreal, giddily original debut that plumbs the myth of Los Angeles.”— James Frey