Joy A. Garnett is an artist and writer in Los Angeles. Her stories have appeared in ellipse, Nashville Review, Evergreen ReviewPing-PongRusted Radishes, and The Artists’ and Writers’ Cookbook. She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, and Atlantic Center for the Arts, and has received grants from Anonymous Was A Woman, United States Artists, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The Wellcome Trust, and the Chipstone Foundation. She is finishing writing a family memoir.

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Short stories


2023

Hoda Floating Hotel,” NASHVILLE REVIEW Issue 41

2022

Lesser Meats,” TWO COATS OF PAINT 

2021

Life Drawing,”  EVERGREEN REVIEW (SS 2021)

2020

Leaving New York,” EVERGREEN REVIEW (FW 2020)

2019

The Sea Takes Up Residence in All Parts of the City,RUSTED RADISHES, Issue 8: ‘Sea Change,’ American University of Beirut

FULL BLEDE (ed. by Sacha Baumann, Los Angeles):

“Time Capsule,” Issue 10: THE UNDERTAKING

“Memento,” Issue 9: THE CLEAVE

“Hive Inspection,” Issue 8: THE INTERPENETRATE

“Arrival,” Issue 7: THE CONTINUANT

STAT®REC (Statement of Record):

Micromanagement,” September

The Bee Kingdom outline of a work in progress, May

2016

“Piss & Vinegar,” The Artists’ and Writers’ Cookbook, ed. Natalie Eve Garrett, powerHouse Books 

2015

“Edham the Atheist (a fiction),” PING-PONG, November Issue. A lost manuscript, a walk in the heat, a nervous monologue, an imagined meeting. Short fiction. (PING-PONG is a literary journal of the Henry Miller Memorial Library).

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