JOY BAGLIO is a writer of speculative-literary fiction currently writing and teaching in Northampton MA. Her short stories have appeared in various literary magazines, including ​Tin House, American Short Fiction, The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, TriQuarterly, ​SmokeLong Quarterly,  New Ohio Review, PANK, and F(r)iction. Her novel-in-progress has been generously supported by grants from The Elizabeth George Foundation and The Speculative Literature Foundation, and she's received residencies/fellowships from The Corporation of Yaddo, Vermont Studio Center, and Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. She was also the 2018 Margaret Bridgman Scholar in Fiction at The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her fiction has received recognition from numerous contests, including The Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions and Ploughshares Emerging Writer's Contest (Honorable Mention for "How to Survive on Land").

Originally from Buffalo NY, Joy graduated from Bard College and holds an MFA from The New School. She recently served as Associate Fiction Editor at West Branch, and currently teaches writing at Grub Street in Boston and Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop, a literary arts center in Western MA that she founded in 2016. She's at work on a novel about origins, identity, marine scientists, and the ocean - based (very) loosely on her short story "How to Survive on Land" - and a short story collection. Follow her on twitter at @JoyBaglio. 
Represented by Peter Steinberg, at Foundry Lit & Media
For film/TV: Sean Daily at Hotchkiss, Daily, & Associates.

Honors and Awards

Joy's complete CV
2019
  • Fellowship at Yaddo
  • Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center
  • Teach! Write! Play! Fellowship at Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing
  • 40 Under 40 Honoree, Business West (for work as Founder/Director of Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop)
  • Flash Fiction Contest shortlist, at The Master's Review

2018
  • Margaret Bridgman Scholar in Fiction, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference 2018
  • Grant winner, The Elizabeth George Foundation - (to support research and completion of the novel "How to Survive on Land")
  • American Short(er) Fiction Contest (finalist), American Short Fiction
  • SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction (finalist), SmokeLong Quarterly
 
2017
  • Gulliver Travel Research Grant, The Speculative Literature Foundation - (for research on the novel "How to Survive on Land")
  • Best of the Net Award Nomination, Menacing Hedge - (for "How to Survive on Land" - reprinted from New Ohio Review)
  • Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions of 2017, Wigleaf - (for "Night Circus," published in PANK)
  • Tin House Scholarship (finalist), Tin House
  • Katharine Bakeless Nason Scholarship (finalist), Bread Loaf Writers' Conference​
 
2016
  • Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest (Honorable Mention), Ploughshares - (for "How to Survive on Land")
  • Flash Fiction Contest Winner, F(r)iction Magazine - ( for "The Forgiveness Machine")
  • Kathy Fish Fellowship (finalist), Smokelong Quarterly
  • Dead Bison Editor’s Prize (finalist), Arcadia Press
  • Short Story Challenge (4th Place), NYC Midnight
 
    2007
  • Mary McCarthy Award in Writing, Bard College

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