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Josh Riedel is the author of the novel Please Report Your Bug Here, called a “sharp literary thriller” by The New York Times and selected as an Amazon Editors’ Pick in “Best Science Fiction & Fantasy.”
He received his MFA from the University of Arizona and his work has been supported by MacDowell and Yaddo. His writing appears or is forthcoming in McSweeney’s Quarterly, Esquire, Electric Literature, Joyland, One Story, and elsewhere. He lives in Portland, Oregon, and is currently working on his second novel while editing and publishing Thirty Cabins.
"[A] sharp literary thriller."
—The New York Times
"Dark, funny, and highly inventive, Riedel’s debut is as addictive as the apps it criticizes."
—Vulture
“…a fun and inventive debut thriller…."
—Cosmopolitan
““Please Report Your Bug Here is disarming and inspired, unafraid of big questions and deep longings.”
—Rachel Khong, author of Real Americans
“Please Report Your Bug Here is an unexpected, inventive, heartfelt riff on the workplace novel—startup realism with a multiverse twist.”
—Anna Wiener, author of Uncanny Valley
Selected Short Fiction
// “Haul Out,” McSweeney’s Summer 2026
// “The Weather in San Angelo,” Electric Literature
// “The One With the Multiverse,” Joyland
// “Lunatics,” Passages North
// “Midnight Sessions,” One Story
// “Lost in Park Hyatt Tokyo,” Eleven Stories
// “Please Report Your Bug Here,” Sycamore Review
Selected Essays
// “Saving the Night Sky,” Esquire
// “How Leaning into Marginalia Helped Me Accept the Loss of Control That Comes with Publication,” LitHub
// “What It’s Like to Be @Josh on Instagram,” Slate