As a writer, Joshua Craze's recent subjects have included a short story about a hunt for unique gestures amid the sad repetitions of stock photography, an essay about money and migration in Juba, South Sudan, and a grammar of redacted documents that was exhibited at the New Museum, New York.
He was a 2014 UNESCO Laureate Artist in Creative Writing, and had a residency at the Dar Al-Ma'mūn, in Marrakech, Morocco in the same year. From 2014-18, he was a Collegiate Assistant Professor and Harper-Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago.