joanna theiss
writer & reader
recent Publications
11/2024. “Last Week the Sun Died” YOUR IMPOSSIBLE VOICE
10/2024. “Mother, Uploaded” STANCHION ZINE
10/2024. “A Conversation with Patricia Q. Bidar, Author of ‘Wild Plums’” THE MASTERS REVIEW
10/2024. “Out There Still” SWITCH MICROFICTION
09/2024. “Watermelon” GOOSEBERRY PIE LIT
09/2024. “Days on End” THE EKPHRASTIC REVIEW
08/2024. “A Question for April” PATO JOURNAL
08/2024. “When She Asks How Daddy Proposed” SOUTH FLORIDA POETRY JOURNAL
07/2024. “What’s Gone Bad at Aunt Margarete’s” BULB CULTURE COLLECTIVE
06/2024. “Spell Jar” UNBROKEN
05/2024. “Book Review: The Curators by Maggie Nye” FIVE SOUTH
04/2024. “A Screw” MACQUEEN’S QUINTERLY
Oh, hi!
I’m a lawyer-turned-writer living in Washington, DC.
Before I turned to writing full-time, I did things like:
stick price tags on cans of cat food,
slice roast beef,
hammer on about the standard of review,
pick juries,
& write about the Affordable Care Act.
I write flash fiction, microfiction, poetry, short stories, and way longer stories, including a novel-in-progress which was Shortlisted for the 2024 First Pages Prize. My writing has been included in the wigleaf Top 50 Longlist and Best Microfiction 2022, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfiction. I’m the associate editor at Five South Journal (read my interview here).
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