Joy Baglio is a fiction writer living in Northampton, MA, interested in the overlap of science, the natural world, and the fantastic. Her short stories have appeared recently in Tin House, The Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, Tin House's The Open Bar, New Ohio Review, PANK, SmokeLong Quarterly, and elsewhere, and she is the recipient of grants and scholarships from The Bread Loaf Writers' Workshop, The Elizabeth George Foundation, and The Speculative Literature Foundation. She serves as Associate Fiction Editor at West Branch, a Grub Street writing instructor, and Founder/Director of Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop, where she also teaches. She's at work on a novel about three half-mermaid siblings, identity, origins, and the ocean (based on her short story "How to Survive on Land). Read her full bio here!
- Recent News -November 17: Joy was a panelist at WriteAngles Conference at Mount Holyoke College.
September 28: Joy was interviewed on her reading preferences as associate fiction editor for West Branch by Sara Rauch at The Art of Landing. September 12: Joy is a featured reader in HIP Lit's Summer Series finale - an official Brooklyn Book Fest event - at Nowadays, in Brooklyn NY. August 15-25: Joy attended the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference as the Margaret Bridgeman Scholar in Fiction. She was thrilled to study with Laura Van Den Berg and for the opportunity to read her work in The Little Theater alongside the other scholars. June 18, 2018: Joy's flash fiction, "A Boy Who Does Not Remember His Father," appears in Issue Sixty of SmokeLong Quarterly, where it was a finalist for The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction. An author interview with Joy - by Mary Henn of SmokeLong Quarterly - also appears with the story. April 21, 2018: Joy read alongside other Tin House candy issue contributors at Think Coffee on 4/21, as part of PEN America's Lit Crawl, NYC. April 11, 2018: Joy's flash fiction stories - "Belly of the Beast" and "Box of Ghosts" - are both finalists in American Short Fiction's annual flash fiction contest. March 1, 2018: Joy's short story, "Ron," is featured in Tin House's candy issue. January 16, 2018: Joy joins West Branch as an Associate Fiction Editor. January 15, 2018: Joy's short story "We Are Trying to Understand You" - about sentient AI and the last woman on earth - is in the current issue of TriQuarterly (153| Winter/Spring 2018). January 8, 2018: Joy received a generous grant from The Elizabeth George Foundation in support of her novel-in-progress HOW TO SURVIVE ON LAND. The grant will primarily be used for research-related travel and writing time. January 4, 2018: Joy's short story "End Grain" appears in the Winter 2017/2018 issue of The Iowa Review! November 27, 2017: Joy is the recipient of the 2017 Gulliver Travel Research Grant, from The Speculative Literature Foundation. |
Scholars' Reading (Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, 2018)
"How to Survive on Land" in New Ohio Review (2016)
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- Upcoming Events -• Reading at Strange Theater: A Fabulist Reading @ AWP, 6:30pm on 3/28/19, at Lucky Labrador Brewing Company, Portland OR
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