{{short description|Author and professor-emeritus at Iowa State University}} {{Infobox Person
| name = Joseph Geha | birth_date = 1944 | birth_place = Zahle, Lebanon | occupation = Professor-emeritus at Iowa State University }}
'''Joseph Geha''' (born 1944, Zahle, Lebanon), professor-emeritus at Iowa State University, is the author of two books, ''Through and Through: Toledo Stories,''<ref>{{Cite book|title=Through and through : Toledo stories|last=Geha|first=Joseph|publisher=Syracuse University Press|year=2009|isbn=9780815650966|edition=Second |location=Syracuse, NY|oclc=878804900}}</ref> one of the first books of modern Arab-American fiction, and ''Lebanese Blonde,''<ref>{{Cite book|title=Lebanese blonde : a novel|last=Geha|first=Joseph|date=2012|publisher=The University of Michigan Press|isbn=9780472118458|location=Ann Arbor|oclc=778074345}}</ref> a novel. He has also published poems, plays, essays and short fiction in periodicals and anthologies such as ''Esquire'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a2210/esq0207go/|title=Go Figure|last=Geha|first=Joseph|date=Feb 20, 2007|publisher=Esquire|access-date=January 22, 2013}}</ref> ''Growing Up Ethnic in America'',<ref>{{cite book|last=Gillian|first=Maria Maziotti|title=Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to Be American|year=1999|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=0140280634}}</ref> and ''The New York Times''.<ref>{{cite news|last=Geha|first=Joseph|title=Remember Who You Are|newspaper=New York Times Sunday Review of Books|date=July 14, 1991}}</ref>
== Education == Geha moved to the United States in 1946 with his family, and in 1962 graduated from St. Francis de Sales High School in Toledo, Ohio.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://utnews.utoledo.edu/index.php/11_09_2012/ut-alum-to-read-passage-from-new-book|title=UT ALUM TO READ PASSAGE FROM NEW BOOK|last=Purdue|first=Brian|date=November 9, 2012|work=UT News|access-date=July 30, 2016}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> He graduated from the University of Toledo in 1966 with a B.A., and 1968 with an M.A. in English. Before coming to Iowa State in 1977, he taught English and Creative Writing at Missouri State University, Bowling Green State University and the University of Toledo.<ref name=":0">{{cite news|last=Lane|first=Tahree|title=Toledo native's past shapes novel|url=http://www.toledoblade.com/Books/2012/11/04/Toledo-natives-past-shapes-novel.html|access-date=5 February 2013|newspaper=Toledo Blade|date=November 4, 2012}}</ref>
== Awards ==
Geha was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1988 and a Pushcart Prize in Fiction in 1990.<ref>{{cite web|title=National Endowment for the Arts|url=http://arts.gov/content/joseph-geha|access-date=24 December 2013|archive-date=6 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106034304/http://arts.gov/content/joseph-geha|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Polk|first=James|title=In Short: Fiction|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/11/books/in-short-fiction-342590.html|access-date=24 December 2013|newspaper=New York Times|date=November 11, 1990}}</ref> His work was chosen for inclusion in the Permanent Collection, Arab-American Archive, of the Smithsonian Institution. He was named an Arab American Book Award Winner in 2013 for his novel ''Lebanese Blonde''.<ref>{{cite news|last=Lai|first=Daniel|title=Arab American Authors Honored for Literary Contributions|url=http://dearborn.patch.com/groups/arts-and-entertainment/p/arab-american-authors-honored-for-literary-contributions|access-date=24 December 2013|newspaper=Dearborn Patch|date=July 10, 2013}}</ref>
== Works ==
* ''Through and Through: Toledo Stories'' (1990, Graywolf Press; 2009 second, expanded version, University of Syracuse Press) (short fiction) * ''Flyway: Arab American Writing'' (2002, Iowa State University) (editor) * ''Lebanese Blonde'' (2012, University of Michigan Press) (novel)
== References ==
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== Scholarly criticism == * Salaita, Steven (2001). "[http://muse.jhu.edu/article/8857 Sand Niggers, Small Shops, and Uncle Sam: Cultural Negotiation in the Fiction of Joseph Geha and Diana Abu-Jaber]" (PDF). ''Criticism''. '''43''' (4). Retrieved July 30, 2016 – via Project MUSE.
==External links==
*{{cite news|last=Miller|first=Michael|title=Lebanese Blonde|url=http://www.toledofreepress.com/tag/joseph-geha/|access-date=24 February 2013|newspaper=Toledo Free Press|date=November 6, 2012}} *{{cite web|last=Nebbe|first=Charity|title="Lebanese Blonde" by Joseph Geha|url=http://news.iowapublicradio.org/term/joseph-geha|publisher=Iowa Public Radio|access-date=24 February 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106033002/http://news.iowapublicradio.org/term/joseph-geha|archive-date=6 January 2014}}
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