joanna theiss
writer & reader
recent Publications
12/2024. “BCC Shines a Light on Joanna Theiss” BULB CULTURE COLLECTIVE
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
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 HIV/AIDS under 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, nominated for the Pushcart Prize (2023, 2024), Best of the Net (2024), Best Small Fictions (2023), and Best Microfiction (2022, 2023, 2024). I’m the associate editor at Five South Journal (read my interview here).
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