Joshua Haunschild was born in Seattle, Washington, 1990. He received his BFA in Photography & Imaging from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2012 and his MFA in Photography from Arizona State University in 2019.

Haunschild's work has been displayed at Houston Center for Photography, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Artspace 111, Crooked Tree Arts Center, and Gulf & Western Gallery. He is currently working as an adjunct professor in Tempe Arizona.