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Joseph Geha (b. 1944, Zahle, Lebanon), professor-emeritus at Iowa State University, is the author of two books, Through and Through: Toledo Stories (Graywolf, 1990), one of the first books of modern Arab-American fiction, and Lebanese Blonde (University of Michigan Press, 2012), a novel. He has also published poems, plays, essays and short fiction in periodicals and anthologies such as Esquire, Growing Up Ethnic in America, and The New York Times.

Geha graduated from the University of Toledo in 1968 with an M.A. in English. Before coming to Iowa State in 1977, he taught English and Creative Writing at Southwest Missouri State University, Bowling Green State University and The University of Toledo.

He lives in Ames, Iowa with his wife, the columnist and author Fern Kupfer. The couple has three daughters.

Works

 * (1990) Through and Through: Toledo Stories', Graywolf Press (short stories)
 * (2002) Flyway: Arab American Writing, Iowa State University (editor)
 * (2009) Through and Through: Toledo Stories (2nd, expanded edition), University of Syracuse Press (short fiction)
 * (2012) Lebanese Blonde, University of Michigan Press (novel

Awards
Geha was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in (YEAR?) and a Pushcart Prize in Fiction in (YEAR?) His work was chosen for inclusion in the Permanent Collection, Arab-American Archive, of the Smithsonian Institution.