Josh Baldwin is a publisher, filmmaker, and musician located in Lewisburg, WV. Born and raised in Huntington, WV, he attended Marshall University where he received a degree in English before moving to Europe to live and work for a year. He returned to receive his master’s degree at UNC-Wilmington before moving to Lewisburg in 2005, where, at 26 years old, he founded the Greenbrier Valley Quarterly, a cultural and lifestyle magazine that is now in its 17th year of publication. He has been awarded the Young Gun award from WV Executive (the youngest to ever receive the honor), and the State Journal’s “40 under 40.” In 2020, he was awarded the Governor’s Awards for The Arts—Individual Leadership Award. He received a number of other recognitions locally and was elected to serve two terms on Lewisburg City Council, as well as being an adjunct English professor for New River Community and Technical College. In 2013 he founded the Lewisburg Literary Festival, where he has brought dozens of renowned authors and filmmakers to Carnegie Hall for intimate interviews and talks, including David Sedaris and Tobias Wolff. He was also part of the group that founded TEDx Lewisburg and the Significant Cinema Series. In 2012, he started working on his first film, The Contender, of which he produced and directed, and won Best Feature Documentary at the WV Filmmakers Festival. In 2016-17, Baldwin produced the short documentary The Flood, winner of Best Short Documentary at WV Filmmakers Fest, and later directed the short Up on Sandusky Ridge, written by award-winning playwright Jonathan Joy. He is also the guitar player and songwriter for the rock bands The Longshots and Deep State. Currently, Baldwin is the owner of Havenbrook Media, a creative agency, and Black Lantern Productions, a video production company, as well as the bar/restaurant Briergarten, all located in Lewisburg, where he lives with his wife, Mary, and their three children—Stella, Piper, and Milo.