JoAnna Novak is the Pushcart Prize-nominated author of
Laps (forthcoming from Another New Calligraphy), an art book of short fictions, and
Something Real (dancing girl press, 2011). She holds an M.F.A. in fiction writing from Washington University and an M.F.A. in poetry from University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her writing has recently appeared in
Guernica, Web Conjunctions, Black Warrior Review, DIAGRAM, and
Pank; new work is forthcoming in
Hobart, Forklift Ohio, Heavy Feather Review, and
Los Angeles Review, among others. She lives in Massachusetts, where she is working on a memoir.