Interviews 

Reading Lists

• Interview with American Short Fiction (2020)
• Interview with Business West (2019)
• Interview with Business West, 40 Under 40 (2019)
• Interview with The Art of Landing (2018)
• Interview with SmokeLong Quarterly (2018)
• Interview with WriteAngles Conference (2017)
• Interview with Beetle Press (2017)

• 10 Short Stories About Women's Transformations - "How to Survive on Land" included (2020)

• The Funniest Writing You Haven't Read - "Ron" included (2019)

Photos

Panel: Wrangling the Beast: Playing with Structure in the First Novel (AWP, 2022)

Panel: The Literary Ghost Story (AWP, 2022)

Strange Theater Reading (AWP, 2022)

Scholar Reading at Sewanee Writers' Conference (July, 2021)

Sewanee Writers' Conference workshop group, with Vanessa Hua & Jill McCorkle (July, 2021)

With authors Liz Harmer and Mary South, at Sewanee Writers' Conference (July, 2021)

Joy reading during the resident presentations at Vermont Studio Center (November, 2019)

The Red Barn, Vermont Studio Center (November, 2019)

Joy at work at her desk, in the Maverick Studio Building, at Vermont Studio Center (November, 2019)

At Yaddo (September, 2019)

Joy at work at her desk at Yaddo (September, 2019)

Joy reading in her room (Katrina Trask's room) at Yaddo (September, 2019)

Joy at Business West's 40 Under 40 gala, receiving an award as Founder/Director of Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop (June, 2019)

Joy at Business West's 40 Under 40 gala, which honors young business and civic leaders in Western MA (June, 2019)

Joy receiving an award at Business West's 40 Under 40 gala in Holyoke, MA (June 2019)

Joy and Alexander Weinstein, Director of Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing (June 2019)

Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard (June, 2019)

At Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing (June 2019)

- from Angela Carter's "Lady of the House of Love," which inspired my 2018 Halloween costume (left).

Reading with Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's Hampden Gallery; October 2018

Reading with Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's Hampden Gallery; October 2018

Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop featured authors: Seth Harwood, Joy Baglio, Sara Rauch, and Adam Grabowski; October, 2018 at Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Bread Loaf Writers' Conference 2018, with Laura Van Den Berg and Kristen Iskandrian

Scholars' reading at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, 2018

Reading with Tin House candy issue contributors at PEN America's Lit Crawl NYC, 4/21/18 @ Think Coffee

Reading @ Amherst Books in Amherst MA, 6/11/18

Reading @ Amherst Books in Amherst, MA, 6/11/18

Featured reader at Ditmas Lit reading series, Brooklyn NY, November 2017

Reading at Ditmas Lit Reading Series, Hinterlands Bar in Brooklyn, 2017

Reading at Straw Dog Writers' Guild, Writers Night Out, Northampton MA, 2017

H.I.P Lit's Summer Series reading @ Nowadays in Brooklyn, NY / Brooklyn Book Fest, 9/12/18

H.I.P. Lit's Summer Series @ Nowadays in Brooklyn, NY / Brooklyn Book Fest, 9/12/18

Reading at Ditmas Lit Reading Series, at Hinterlands Bar in Brooklyn (Fall 2017)

Teaching at Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop (Spring, 2017)

with Aimee Bender, at Tin House Summer Workshop, Portland OR, 2017

Reading at Tin House Summer Workshop, Portland OR, 2017

Teaching at Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop, Northampton MA, 2017

With author and workshop instructor Sharon Mesmer, at The New School's Summer Writer Colony (June 2011)

With writer Ben Jackson and author Rebecca Makkai (2018)

Performing at The Inspired Word reading series, NYC, 2010

Performing at The Inspired Word reading series, NYC, 2010

Performing at The Inspired Word, NYC, 2010

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