Joshua Gidding teaches writing at Highline
College, near Seattle. He has also
taught at Dowling College, Stony Brook
University, Holy Cross, and the University
of Southern California. He is the author
of Old White Man Writing (forthcoming in 2025),
Failure: An Autobiography (2007),
The Old Girl (1980), and numerous essays
and book reviews. He is also the editor of
The Ways We Were: Exeter Remembered,
1968 -1972 (2022). His essay “On Not Being
Proust: An Essay in Literary Failure,”
was listed in Best American Essays 2009.
He lives in Seattle with his second wife,
Julie Tower Gilmour, an interfaith chaplain.
He has a son, Zachary, by his first
wife Diane, a psychiatric rehabilitation
counselor, who died in 2004.