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Joseph Eastburn

Joseph Eastburn lived fourteen years in New York City, where his parents met on stage at the Cherry Lane Theatre in 1941. Working as an actor/singer, he appeared in over thirty productions, including A Study in Scarlet with Alec Baldwin at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

He's the author of 15 plays, including The Godhead, which won the 17th Annual One-Act Play Festival at USC, and Heart's Desire, which was given a staged reading at Williamstown with three Tony-award winning actors. His new play, Wild Blue Yonder, is set to appear in Ensemble Studio Theatre-LA's Winterfest.

He earned a master’s degree in Professional Writing from USC, where he taught for ten years. His writing has appeared in Existere Journal, The Apalachee Review, storySouth, Crack the Spine, Forge, Reed Magazine, Sliver of Stone, Slow Trains, The Sun Magazine, Tower Journal, Sand Hill Review, and Hobo Pancakes. His first novel, Kiss Them Good-Bye, was published by Morrow in 1993, and brought back in paper and eBook in 2016. His new book, A Craving, was a Third Place Winner in the Operation Thriller Writing Competition.