Joel Hans is a fiction author and editor in Tucson, Arizona.

His debut short story collection, The Bedtime Emptying of Our World, won the 2024 Moon City Short Fiction award and will be published in late 2025 with Moon City Press. Read more about the collection →

His fiction has been published in Fairy Tale Review, Story, West Branch, Booth: A Journal, Passages North, HAD, and many others, and has been anthologized in Best Small Fictions. He received his MFA from the University of Arizona, and now edits Astrolabe, a literary journal in the form of a dynamic universe.