In 1979, Josh moved overseas; he spent the next 12 years teaching a wide range of writing, literature and communication courses for the University of Maryland's European Division, living and working in England, Holland, Germany, Spain, Greece, and the Middle Eastern island emirate of Bahrain. His Mahboob Chaudri stories, which have appeared in EQMM, ALFRED HITCHCOCK MYSTERY MAGAZINE, NEW MYSTERY and numerous anthologies, are set in Bahrain; author/critic Bill Pronzini called Chaudri --one of crime fiction's most delightful new detectives.
Josh returned to the US in 1991, and he now teaches for several colleges in and around Cleveland, Ohio. In addition to EQMM, AHMM and NEW MYSTERY, his stories have been published in ESPIONAGE, NEW BLACK MASK, A MATTER OF CRIME, HARDBOILED, DETECTIVE STORY MAGAZINE and elsewhere, including several appearances in Edward D. Hoch's annual BEST MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE STORIES OF THE YEAR collections. He is the editor of the TOP CRIME, TOP SCIENCE FICTION and TOP FANTASY anthologies, which have been published in the US, England, and several European countries, and has translated numerous volumes of fiction and nonfiction from Dutch into English; in 1986, he received a special award from the MWA for translating Janwillem van de Wetering's Edgar-nominated short story, There Goes Ravelaar!
The accomplishment of which he is the proudest, though, is being the father of a 10-year-old girl, Becca, who's determined to grow up to be either a biohazard scientist or a crime writer like her dad.