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JoAnna Novak is the author of seven books, most recently, DOMESTIREXIA: Poems and the critically-acclaimed memoir Contradiction Days: A Writer on the Verge of Motherhood. Her short story collection Meaningful Work won the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest and was published by FC2. She is the author of the novel I Must Have You and three books of poetry: New Life; Abeyance, North America; and Noirmania.
JoAnna’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Times, The Atlantic, BOMB, VQR, American Short Fiction, Conjunctions, and other publications. Her essay “My $1000 Anxiety Attack” was anthologized in About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of The New York Times. She is a co-founder of the literary journal and chapbook publisher, Tammy.
JoAnna holds a PhD in Creative Writing & Literature from the University of Southern California, as well as an MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an MFA in Fiction from Washington University in St. Louis. She divides her time between Chicago and Los Angeles.