"['They Could Have Been Yours'] is the kind of short story that makes me want to jump onto my desk and shout: The American short story is alive and well!"
- Speer Morgan, Editor of The Missouri Review (Read as a reprint in Apex)
About
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JOY BAGLIO (BAH - lee - oh) is a speculative/literary fiction writer (and Leo Sun / Scorpio rising!) living in Northampton, MA. Her short stories have appeared widely in such journals as Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, Tin House, American Short Fiction, Conjunctions, The Iowa Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Fairy Tale Review, and elsewhere. Recent honors include fellowships, residencies, and/or grants from Yaddo, Ragdale, Vermont Studio Center, The Elizabeth George Foundation, The Speculative Literature Foundation, Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and The Kerouac Project, where she was the spring 2023 writer-in-residence. Joy holds an MFA from The New School and is the founder of the literary arts organization Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop. She is at work on a genre-bending collection of short stories and a novel and is represented by Peter Steinberg at United Talent Agency (UTA) and Sean Daily (for film/TV). Follow her on Twitter at @JoyBaglio. Longer bio / artist statement here.
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Short Stories
- "Frog Heart" in Ploughshares (Summer 2024) | Guest Edited by Rebecca Makkai **Nominated for a 2025 Pushcart Prize **
- "They Could Have Been Yours" in Apex Magazine (Spring 2023 | First published in The Missouri Review, Spring, 2022)
- "Speech Lessons" in Ghost Parachute (April, 2023)
- "Men" in Ghost Parachute (March, 2023)
- "Box of Ghosts" in The Bureau Dispatch (Fall, 2022)
- "Before" in The Fairy Tale Review (spring, 2022)
- "The Jackal" in Conjunctions (October 2021) - Spanish translation by Manuel Calvillo de la Garzo, at Leer Mas Cuentos
- "House of Stars" in Gulf Coast (Sumer/Fall, 2020)
- "Belly of the Beast" in American Short Fiction (November 2019)
- "A Boy Who Does Not Remember His Father" - in SmokeLong Quarterly (June 2018)
- "Ron” in Tin House (Spring 2018 Candy Issue)
- “End Grain” in The Iowa Review (Winter 2017/2018)
- “We Are Trying to Understand You” in TriQuarterly (Winter 2018)
- “Night Circus” in PANK (2016)
- “How to Survive on Land” in New Ohio Review (2016)
- “The Forgiveness Machine” in F(r)iction (2016)
- “Squirrel, Leopard, Goat” in Tin House The Open Bar (2015)
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Upcoming & Recent News
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November, 2024: Joy's short story "Frog Heart" (Ploughshares, 2024) is nominated for a 2025 Pushcart Prize!
October, 2024: Joy's short story "The Wolf" is in the October issue of Ghost Parachute, with original art! July, 2024: Joy's short story "Frog Heart" is in the summer 2024 issue of Ploughshares, guest edited by Rebecca Makkai! July, 2024: Joy was interviewed by Montanna Harley for F(r)iction Series, on speculative fiction, through the lens of her stories! Read Here July, 2024: Joy was a writer-in-residence at Rainbow Lake, in the Adirondacks (in New York State), a new residency hosted by the Adirondack Center for Writing. June, 2024: Joy's (very) short story "Before" (published in the Fairy Tale Review) was performed in a dramatic, spoken word reading (The Story Cafe). The event was created and hosted by esteemed actors Candace Barrett Birk and Raye Birk. February 10, 2024: Joy was on a panel about Jobs As Guides Into Our Characters' Worlds, at the 2024 AWP Conference in Kansas City, MO, alongside Sequoia Nagamatsu, Rebecca Makkai, and moderated by Tim Horvath. December 23, 2023: Joy was awarded third place in the 2023 Zoetrope All Story Short Fiction Contest, out of nearly 2000 entries, by guest judge Jamil Jan Kochai. October 9, 2023: Joy interviewed poet Anders Carlson-Wee about his poetry collection, Disease of Kings, for The Common. August, 2023: Joy is on a three-week writing residency at Ragdale Foundation. June, 2023: Joy was featured in conversation with author John King on The Drunken Odyssey, a podcast about the writing life. Listen to the full episode here! April, 2023: Joy's flash story "Speech Lessons" - about coin collecting, letting go, and tongue twisters - is in Ghost Parachute! March - May, 2023: Joy was the spring writer-in-residence at The Kerouac House in Orlando. |
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Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop
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In 2016, Joy founded Pioneer Valley Writers' Workshop, a literary arts organization and community based in the Pioneer Valley of Western MA / Northampton MA (now completely virtual) - offering a changing schedule of writing workshops in all genres, literary readings & events, manuscript consulting services, and a 10-Long Manuscript Program. PVWW now has over thirty author-instructors teaching virtually, as well as close to a hundred workshops and classes each year. It welcomes writers of all levels and genres. Joy leads a monthly generative Community Writing gathering (live via Zoom) that's free to attend.
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