JOY BAGLIO: Unabbreviated CV

Education

2014​
  • The New School, NYC, M.F.A. in Fiction

2008
  • Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, B.A. in Literature & Creative Writing

Publications

Forthcoming, 2025
  • "We Are Sorry For Your Suffering" - in One Story 

​2024
  • "Frog Heart" - in Ploughshares (Summer 2024)

2022
  • "They Could Have Been Yours" - in The Missouri Review (Spring 2022)
  • "Before" - in The Fairy Tale Review (The Lilac Issue, Spring 2022)

​2021
  • "The Jackal" - forthcoming in Conjunctions (Online, Fall 2021)
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2020
2019 ​
2018          ​
 2017
   2016  
   2015

Anthologies

Speculative Fiction: A Writer's Guide & Anthology (includes "Night Circus")
Publisher: Bloomsbury (2024)
Editers: Benjamin Warner & Ron Tanner
Authors: George Saunders, Carmen Maria Machado, Joyce Carol Oates, Sofia Samatar, Rebecca Roanhorse, and many more.

​In the Between: 21st Century Short Stories (includes "Ron")
Publisher: Persea Books (spring 2022)
Editor:  Brice Particelli
Authors: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Phil Klay, Joy Baglio, Akhil Sharma, Vanessa Hua, Bryan Hurt, Rion Amilcar Scott, Robert Anthony Siegel, and more.

​Dreams for a Broken World (includes "Belly of the Beast")
Publisher: Reckoning Press (summer / fall 2022)
Editers: Julie C. Day and Ellen Meeropol
Authors: Nisi Shawl, Sheree Renee Thomas, Joy Baglio, Usman T. Malik, and others

Honors, Awards, Scholarships, Fellowships, Grants

2024
  • Pushcart Prize Nomination, from Ploughshares, for "Frog Heart"
  • Third Place Winner, in Zoetrope All-Story's Short Fiction Contest, for "We Are Sorry For Your Suffering"

2023
  • Residency, at Ragdale Foundation 
  • Writer-in-Residence at the The Kerouac Project (Jack Kerouac House in Orlando, FL)

2021
  • Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers Conference

2019
  • Fellowship at Yaddo
  • Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center
  • Teach! Write! Play! Fellow 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), The Masters 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

EDITORIAL / SERVICE

2021
  • Guest Judge for Teach! Write! Play! Fellowship, at ​Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing

2020
  • Vermont Studio Center, Admissions Jury
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2018 - 2020
  • West Branch Literary Magazine, Bucknell University; Associate Fiction Editor, Dec. 2017 - Dec. 2019

2019 
  • Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Admissions Board​

2017
  • Slice, Fiction Reader

2011-2012
  • Lit, Fiction Reader

2007-2008
  • Conjunctions, Intern and Editorial Assistant

Teaching

2017—present​
Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop, Northampton, MA
  • Founder / Director
  • Courses taught: One-day craft classes on character, dialogue, place, plot & structure, flash fiction, world building, beginnings, endings, publishing; 8-week beginning fiction workshop.

​2017 –present
Grub Street, Boston, MA
  • Writing Instructor
  • Courses taught: Flash Fiction, The Art of the Opening, Path to Publishing,  Intro to Fiction (online)

2019, summer
Smith College, Northampton, MA
  • Writing Instructor 
  • Course: Embracing the Strange: A Workshop in Writing Reality-Bending Fiction

​2012—2013            
The New School, New York, NY
  • Teaching Assistant (for Greil Marcus' Old Weird America)​

​2011—2013
Private Prep, New York, NY
  • Writing & English Tutor
 
2008—2010
Gregorio Luperon High School, New York, NY
  • English Teacher

Interviews & Other Media

Conferences, Panels, Presentations

UPCOMING: Speculating the Machine: How Fiction Writers Are Rendering a New AI Reality
In-Person Panel at the upcoming AWP Conference in Baltimore, 2026
with Joy Baglio (moderator), Allegra Hyde, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Erika Swyler, and Jane Pek

UPCOMING: Smiling at the End of the World: Why Dystopian Fiction Gives Us Hope
In-Person Panel at the upcoming AWP Conference in Baltimore, 2026
with Joy Baglio (co-organizer), Ciera McElroy (moderator), Sequoia Nagamatsu, Michelle Min Sterling, & Brenda Peynado

Embracing the Strange: An Introduction to Speculative Fiction
WriteAngles Conference in Greenfield, MA, October 2025

Ghosts, Portals, & Other Worlds: The Surreal in Contemporary Fiction
Virtual Panel at AWP Conference in Seattle, 2023
with Joy Baglio (moderator), Laura Van Den Berg, Jennifer Pullen, Kevin Brockmeier, and Matthew Lansburgh

The Literary Ghost Story: The Power of Haunted Fiction
Virtual Panel at AWP Conference in Philadelphia, 2022
with Joy Baglio (moderator), Sequoia Nagamatsu, Amber Sparks, and Yohanca Delgado

Wrangling the Beast: Playing with Structure in the First Novel
Virtual panel at AWP Conference in Philadelphia, 2022
with Joy Baglio (moderator), Emma Komlos-Hrobsky, Raluca Albu, Swati Khurana, and Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Funding Your Writing: What Every Writer Should Know Before Applying for Project-Specific Grants
Virtual Presentation at Grub Street's The Muse & The Marketplace Conference, 2022

Embracing the Strange: The Power of Genre Bending in Fiction,
Virtual panel at AWP (2020)
with Joy Baglio (moderator), Matthew Lansburgh, Sarah Jane Cody, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Lara Ehrlich