Josiah DeGraaf

Director of Admissions & Marketing

Professional Experience

  • Co-Founder of Story Embers (2018-2024)
  • Staff Writer & Editor, Lorehaven (2021 – present)

Writings & Publications

  • A Study of Shattered Spells (upcoming in 2025)
  • Mage Kids These Days (Havok, 2024)
  • Visions of Grandeur (and Other Stories) (2023)

“Stories that lack joy are as unrealistic as stories that lack suffering.

– Josiah DeGraaf

Biography

Josiah DeGraaf is a literature nerd who loves helping writers impact readers with honest storytelling. As a reader, he loves epic fantasy stories with imaginative worldbuilding. And as a writer, he loves crafting fantasy stories about characters who face the same dilemmas we do when we try to do the right thing. In addition to running marketing & admissions at the Author Conservatory, he also works as the program director of the Young Writer’s Workshop and as a staff writer for Lorehaven. He lives in a small river town just north of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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