{"id":421,"date":"2019-10-18T01:40:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T01:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshwagner.xyz\/?page_id=421"},"modified":"2026-05-12T12:08:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:08:04","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/joshwagner.xyz\/?page_id=421","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Josh Wagner is a storyteller and trans-medial artist based in the South of Ireland. He has produced award-winning work in film, theatre, comics, and traditional prose. Publication credits include <em>Cafe Irreal, Fish Publishing, Not One of Us, Cleaver Magazine, Medulla Review, Fractured Lit, the Lovecraft eZine, Routledge Press <\/em>and <em>Image Comics<\/em>. 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