JOY BAGLIO (BAH - lee - oh) is a fiction writer living in Northampton, MA. Her short stories have appeared in Tin House, American Short Fiction, The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, TriQuarterly, New Ohio Review, PANK, SmokeLong Quarterly, among others. She's the recipient of scholarships, fellowships, and grants from Yaddo, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Vermont Studio Center, The Elizabeth George Foundation, The Speculative Literature Foundation, and Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and her work has been optioned for film and TV. She holds an MFA from The New School and is the founder of the (now virtual) literary arts organization Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop, a manuscript consultant and writing instructor at Grub Street in Boston, and a contributing editor at Bucknell University's literary magazine West Branch. She's at work on a collection of short stories and a novel.
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Joy is represented by Peter Steinberg at YRG Partners and Sean Daily at Hotchkiss, Daily, & Associates (for film/TV).
Read Joy's full bio and follow her on Twitter at @JoyBaglio.
Read Joy's full bio and follow her on Twitter at @JoyBaglio.
- Recent News -
November: Joy's first published short story, "How to Survive on Land," was re-issued recently online at New Ohio Review, alongside an audio recording of her reading the story, and other work from issue 20.
September 9: Joy's proposed panel for the 2021 AWP conference - Embracing the Strange: The Power of Genre-Bending in Fiction - was accepted! She'll be moderating the panel, which includes authors Matthew Lansburgh, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Lara Ehrlich, and Sarah Jane Cody. September 8: Joy will be in conversation with Lara Ehrlich, author of the debut short story collection Animal Wife at the (virtual) Animal Wife Book Launch Party, at Bank Square Books in Mystic, CT on 9/8 at 7pm EST. Join us! August 28: Joy's short story "How to Survive on Land" was included in the Electric Literature reading list "10 Short Stories About Women's Transformations" by Animal Wife author Lara Ehrlich. April 8: Joy's flash fiction piece, "House of Stars" - about a universe that appears in a frying pan - is out in the summer/fall 2020 print issue of Gulf Coast. March 4: Joy was interviewed by Erin McReynolds at American Short Fiction about her recent story "Belly of the Beast," flash fiction, her writing process, and current projects. |
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- Upcoming Virtual Events -Outline Your Novel: Building a Story With Solid Bones
3 Hours: Saturday, March 13 (1 - 4pm EST) Introduction to Flash Fiction: Creating Tiny Universes 4 Weeks: Wednesdays, March 24 - April 14 (6 - 8pm EST) Advanced Flash Fiction Workshop 6 Weeks: Wednesdays, April 21 - May 26 (6 - 8pm EST) Community Writing at Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop Ongoing: First/Third Friday of Every Month (6 - 8pm EST) Free & Open to All! |
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