Joseph Howse

Joseph Howse writes fiction, as well as technical books on computer programming and image analysis. He lives in a windswept Canadian fishing village, where he chats with his cats and endeavours to grow hardy fruit trees. He has roamed on six continents in a pair of old work boots.

Joseph’s debut novel, The Girl in the Water, has won the 2023 Independent Press Award for Literary Fiction and the 2023 IAN Awards for Outstanding Multicultural Fiction. The sequel, The Circus and the Atom, has won the 2026 NYC Big Book Award for World Literature, as well as the 2026 Independent Press Award for Literary Fiction and for World Literature.