My name is Joshua Blu Buhs.

I am a husband, father, and independent scholar--the last of which is what probably brought you to my site.  Feel free to poke around, using the navigation menu to the left.

I was born in Burlingame, California, in 1973.  I relocated to the Sacramento area in junior high, graduating from Casa Roble High School in 1991.

After a year at Reed College--the place was too expensive, and maybe a little too mind-blowing as well--I did a year at American River College, then transferred to U.C. Davis, which granted me a B.S. in zoology in 1995.

I then moved to the University of Pennsylvania's History and Sociology of Science department, receiving my Ph.D. in 2001 for a dissertation called "The Fire Ant Wars."  That later became my first book.

I worked some odd jobs in Sacramento again, while my wife continued her training there--at Travis Air Force Base.  We then received orders to Misawa, Japan, where we lived from 2003-2006.  Upon returning, we brought a daughter with us.

Now I stay home with my girl and write in the mornings and (sometimes) evenings.

My second book, Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend was published by the University of Chicago Press in May 2009.  I am now at work on a third, tentatively--and not very creatively--titled, The Forteans.

Thanks for visiting!