Joshua Morgan Folmar is a Virginia-based poet, songwriter, and educator.

An Alabama native, Joshua received his MFA in Writing from the University of New Hampshire where he was awarded the Young P. Dawkins III Endowed Prize in Creative Writing for his poetry thesis Here We Rest. Joshua is the 2014 recipient of the Richard “Dick” Shea Memorial Award in Poetry, and his work appears in such anthologies as Mark My Words and Liver of Dixie: Stories from Egan's, as well as the publications The Wrath-Bearing Tree, Permafrost and storySouth, among others.

Before moving to Southwest Virginia, he served as a writing specialist at Southern Methodist University, an associate poetry editor of the Saranac Review, and as the founder and former project director of Writing Over War: a DFW-based workshop of The Writer's Garret for veterans and others that have been affected by war. Currently, he teaches English at Radford University. He resides in the New River Valley with his wife, twins, and two rescue cats.

His self-titled, debut album, produced by Ben Tanner (Alabama Shakes, Single Lock Records), is available through all streaming platforms.