joanna@joannaacevedo.net
EDUCATION
New York University
Master’s of Fine Arts, Fiction
Eugene Lang the New School for Liberal Arts
Bachelor’s of Arts, Literary Studies.
Parsons the New School for Design
Bachelor’s of Fine Arts, Illustration.
Bard College
Associate’s of Arts, Liberal Arts.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Editing
Frontier Poetry
Associate Editor , April 2024-Present
Duties include helping to plan yearly calendars, manage backend of Submittable, collaborate with EIC on contest longlists and shortlists, manage social media, write monthly columns for the journal, and create web content which helps facilitate engagement for Frontier readers and submitters, as well as backup administrative support.
Palette Poetry
Craft Editor, April 2024-Present
Duties include writing resource posts for submitters, curating craft essays for a monthly column on the Palette website, working closely with EIC on potential avenues for growth within the journal, and miscellaneous support.
Foglifter Journal
Assistant Fiction Editor, February 2023-May 2024
Duties include reading submissions during open reading periods, making editorial decisions regarding acceptances with the Fiction team, as well as actively soliciting work from LGBTQ writers and doing assorted administrative work.
WriteByNight
Writing Coach, October 2022-Present
Duties include manuscript consultations, book coaching, line-level edits and proofreading, ghostwriting and author support services on a contract basis.
Passport Admissions
Editor, May 2022-September 2023
Duties include working with prospective medical, college, and residency (depending on season) students to brainstorm, synthesize, edit, and polish personal statements and supplemental essays for school applications.
The Masters Review, Palette Poetry,, CRAFT Literary, Voyage YA (see Frontier Poetry above)
Guest Editor, March 2022-Present
Duties include providing editorial feedback for submitters in the form of comprehensive edits on both a developmental and line level.
Publishing
Black Lawrence Press
Sales Rep & Events Coordinator, April 2023-November 2023 (Maternity Leave Cover)
Duties include outreach to bookstores and other venues to carry BLP titles, develop relationships, and work with authors to curate reading events to promote forthcoming titles.
YesYes Books
Assistant Editor, February 2023-July 2023
Intern, August 2022-February 2023
Duties include fielding manuscripts during open reading periods, assorted research and outreach to bookstores, attending monthly staff meetings, and a variety of administrative work.
Teaching
HerStry
Critique Group Instructor, September 2022-Present
Duties include facilitating 6-person workshops over Zoom critiquing student writing, and facilitating discussion, genres including memoir, fiction, and poetry, in 90-minute sessions.
New York University
Adjunct Professor for Intro to Fiction and Poetry, Spring 2020-Fall 2020
Duties included creating a rigorous and interesting curriculum for students of all levels, teaching twice a week, grading student work, meeting with students one-on-one for office hours and keeping students engaged with class material.
Eugene Lang, The New School for Liberal Arts
Teaching Assistant for Intermediate Fiction, Spring 2018
Duties included grading weekly assignments, teaching short lessons, and providing support to the instructor (Joshua Furst) as needed.
SELECTED WORKSHOPS
Query Letter Bootcamp (HerStry, August 2023)
The Art of the Interview (Hugo House, November 2023)
How To Apply To Writing Residencies (Project Write Now, March 2024)
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Finalist for Digging Press 2023 Chapbook Contest
Rosemary’s House Resident, Summer 2023 (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Longlisted for 2023 Best of the Bottom Drawer Prize from Black Spring Press Group
Finalist for Chestnut Review’s 2022 Chapbook Contest in Prose
Finalist of WTAW Press’ First Annual Alcove Chapbook Contest, 2022 (Published chapbook)
Finalist for WTAW Press’ Summer 2022 Full-Length Open Call for Prose for BIPOC Authors
Reviewer-In-Residence, March 2023, Carousel Magazine
Semi-Finalist in Sundress Press 2022 Prose Open Contest
2022 Creatives Rebuild New York: Guaranteed Income For Artists Grant Recipient
Finalist for Black Lawrence Press’ Fall 2021 Black River Chapbook Competition
Longlisted for Steel Toe Books 2021 Prose Award
2021 Pushcart Nominee for “self portrait if the girl is on fire”
Finalist for 2021 Southern Humanities Review Editors’ Chapbook Prize for Fiction
Longlisted for 2021 Sexton Prize from Black Spring Press Group
Honorable Mention For The Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer’s 2021 Fellowship
NYU Goldwater Fellow, Fall 2020-Spring 2021
Hospitalfield Interdisciplinary Resident, Summer 2020 (postponed to 2022)
PUBLICATIONS
Full Length Books
The Pathophysiology of Longing (Black Centipede Press, November 2020)
Unsaid Things (Flexible Press, June 2021)
Small Cruelties (Flexible Press, forthcoming 2025)
Chapbooks
List of Demands (Bottlecap Press, September 2022)
Outtakes (WTAW Press, September 2023)
Poetry
2019
“Indianapolis,” Rigorous Magazine. April, 2018.
“I am just a girl,” Not Very Quiet. March 2019.
“Places You’ve Ruined For Me,” The Paragon Press. May 2019.
“No puedo ser todo,” Mojo. May 2019.
“Diagnosis,” Track Four Journal. July, 2019.
2020
“this is what it feels like to love you,” Tilde. Summer 2020.
“April Is The Cruelest Month,” Fearsome Critters. Summer 2020.
“Ye of little faith,” Change Seven Magazine. September 2020.
“Talks With God,” “Talks With The Devil,” bee house journal. August 2020.
“Runaway Poem,” “Lying Poem,” “Soliloquy Poem,” “Vanishing Point,” “Purgatory Poem,” “Future Poem,” “Mercy Poem,” “Poem About Various Kinds Of Leaving,” “Miracle Poem,” “Epiphany Poem,” Eunoia Review. October 2020.
“Talks With God,” High Shelf Press. October 2020.
2021
“self portrait if the girl is on fire,” West Trade Review, Spring 2021.
“self portrait if the girl is on fire,” Up The Staircase Quarterly, Spring 2021.
“self portrait where i don’t say anything i mean,” Breakbread Literacy Project, Spring 2021.
“i eat desire for breakfast,” Hoxie Gorge Review. Spring 2021.
“when i tell people,” A Tether To This World. Summer 2021.
“self portrait that is a pact with loneliness,” FOLIO, Summer 2021.
“Girl Country,” Sheila-Na-Gig Online, Summer 2021.
“Poem For Sharp Objects,” Defunkt Magazine, Summer 2021.
2022
“List of Demands,” Little Patuxent Review, Winter 2022.
“Nashville, TN,” FLARE, The Flagler Review. Spring 2022.
“Goodbye Anthem,” Digging Through The Fat. Spring 2022.
“the cat has set the precedent,” great weather for MEDIA. Spring 2022.
“I Have A Dream I Need To Tell You Something Important,” 45th Parallel, Summer 2022.
“[Poem With K-hole And $200 Dollar Bar Tab],” Passengers Journal, December 2022.
2023
“A Little Bliss,” Okay Donkey, January 2023.
“[Poem in Which I Frighten The Man I Meet At The Party]”, “[Poem With Suicide Attempts]”, “[Poem With One-Night Stands]”, and “[Poem With Apologia]”, Waxing & Waning, Winter 2023.
“You’ve Got This New Head Filled Up With Smoke,” “Ode to being both at once,” South Dakota Review, Spring 2023.
“Mexican AF,” New York Quarterly, 2023.
Fiction
“My Brother’s Graduation,” Drunken Book Review Podcast: Lit-Tapes. April, 2018.
“What Do You Know About One-Night Stands?” Seventh Wave Magazine. October, 2018.
“Pigeon Apocalypse,” Flying Island Literary Journal. November, 2018.
“Tell Me What Would Happen,” The Gambler. April, 2019.
“Pursuit,” Bridge: The Bluffton University Literary Journal. September, 2019.
“What Would Happen,” The Scarlet Leaf Review. November, 2020.
“Hold On To Me (I’m Trying)” Thin Air Magazine. Summer, 2021.
“The Grace That Comes By Violence.” The Write Launch. November, 2021.
“I Love You Like A Brother.” L’Esprit Literary Review. March, 2022.
“Domestic Life.” The Bookends Review. July, 2022.
“Anywhere But Here.” NiftyLit. November 2022.
“The Dark Room.” Litro USA Magazine Online. November 2022.
Nonfiction
2022
“A Rollercoaster You Cannot Get Off Of,” You Might Need To Hear This. January, 2022.
“Drunk Love(Interlude),” Hobart Pulp. May, 2022.
“You, Dr. Martin,” Barely South Review. Spring, 2022.
“Castle With Bipolar Symptoms,” Untenured Mag. September 2022.
“Four Abortion Novels For Dark Times,” LIBER Review. December 2022.
2023
“Self Portrait As A Suicide Attempt,” Please See Me. January 2023.
“Anaphylaxis,” The Broadkill Review. January 2023.
“Aphantasia,” Assignment Literary Magazine. January 2023.
“Prosopagnosia,” Glassworks Magazine. March 2023.
“Everything Happens All At Once,” Pangyrus Lit Mag. March, 2023.
“Phobophobia,” LEVITATE. Forthcoming.
“Small Dreams”, Southern Florida Poetry Journal. February 2023.
“The Craft, Feminism, and Building A Better World,” Drunk Monkeys, March 2023.
“Instructions On How To Believe,” Blue Mesa Review, May 2023.
“Someone Wants To Be Your Friend!” Chautauqua. June, 2023.
“In this one I take an accidental overdose,” Jelly Bucket. July 2023.
“Forging A New Sense Of Self: Pain And Womanhood In Anne Carson’s ‘The Glass Essay,’” The South Dakota Review, Fall 2023.
“Rule 1,” Barzakh Magazine, July 2023.
“The Endless Backwards Hopeless Remembering,” The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, September 2023.
“Panic,” Kitchen Table Quarterly, October 2023.
“Season of Grief,” Variant Lit, Fall 2023.
“A Story About The Body,” Free State Review, November 2023.
2024
“[Redacted],” The Good Life Review, (Micro Mondays), January 2024.
“It’s Just Sparkling Anxiety,” Midway Journal, Forthcoming 2024.
“What The Dead Know,” Hobart Pulp, February 2024.
“Short Sentences: Chuck Palahniuk And The Success of Fight Club,” True Magazine, forthcoming 2024.
“Pursuit,” Bending Genres, April 2024.
“Such Beautiful Flowers,” Hunger Mountain, forthcoming Summer 2024.
“Over At The Frankenstein Place,” Heavy Feather Review, forthcoming Summer 2024.
Reviews
2021
“A Clear Imitation Of Life In Atticus Lish’s The War For Gloria.” West Trade Review. September, 2021.
2022
The Sons of the Santorelli by Tony Taddei. The Masters Review. April, 2022.
Migrations by Gloria Gervitz. West Trade Review. May, 2022.
Fred: An Unbecoming Woman by Annie Krabbenschmidt. June, 2022. ‘
“A Pinprick In The Cave Darkness: Mothman Apologia by Robert Wood Lynn.” West Trade Review. June, 2022.
“How’s Your Heart? STEMMY THINGS by imogen xtian smith.” Gasher Journal. August, 2022.
“If We’re Not Growing, We’re Stagnating: Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency by Chen Chen.” West Trade Review. September, 2022.
Slight Return by Rebecca Wolff. Bright Eight. October, 2022.
“An Exploration of Grief and Healing in Call It In The Air by Ed Pavlic.” West Trade Review, October, 2022.
Aesthetica by Allie Rowbottom. The Masters Review. November, 2022.
The Rupture Tense and Eye Level by Jenny Xie. The Hong Kong Review. December, 2022.
"Resurrecting Medusa: Villain Made Survivor in Raegen Pietrucha's Head of a Gorgon.” GASHER Journal. December 2022.
2023
Wind, Trees by John Freeman. Rain Taxi. January 2023.
“A City of Revelation: Loneliness and Connection in Robert Wood Lynn's How To Maintain Eye Contact”, West Trade Review. January 2023.
The Survivalists by Kashana Cauley. The Masters Review. January 2023.
Is This How You Eat A Watermelon? by Zein El-Amine. The Adroit Journal. February 2023.
Judas Goat by Gabrielle Bates. Carousel. March 2023.
Yellowface by RF Kuang. Carousel. March 2023.
Explodingly Yours by Chen Chen. Carousel. March 2023.
The Fifth Wound by Aurora Matti. Washington Square Review. March 2023.
Good Grief, The Ground by Margaret Ray. Rain Taxi. Summer 2023.
I’m Always So Serious by Karisma Price. The Hong Kong Review. April 2023.
Cataloguing Pain by Allison Blevins. Foglifter Journal. April 2023.
Journal of A Black Queer Nurse by Britney Daniels. Foglifter Journal. May 2023.
And Then He Sang A Lullaby by Ani Kayode Somtochukwu. The Masters Review. June 2023.
From From by Monica Youn. The Hopkins Review. May 2023.
Happy Stories, Mostly by Norman Erikson Pasaribu. Foglifter Journal. June, 2023.
The Lookback Window by Kyle Dillon Hertz. The Masters Review. August 2023.
Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go by Cleo Qian. Foglifter Journal. August 2023.
Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind by Molly McGhee. The Masters Review. October 2023.
Phantom Advances by Mary Lynn Reed. Foglifter Journal. September 2023.
Have You Been Long Enough At Table by Leslie Sainz. The Adroit Journal. September 2023.
We Borrowed Gentleness by J Estanislao Lopez. The Rumpus. September 2023.
The Corrected Version by Rosanna Young Oh. PRISM International. Fall 2023.
“Name The World: Asian American Poets and the Future Tense,” Carousel, November 2023.
2024
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar. The Masters Review. Winter 2024.
Song of My Softening by Omotara James. The Adroit Journal. February 2024.
Kiss + Release by Anthony DiPietro. Foglifter Journal. March 2024.
What The Living Do by Susan E. Wadds. The Masters Review, forthcoming March 2024.
Theophanies by Sarah Ghazal Ali. Rain Taxi, forthcoming 2024.
OTHER PROJECTS
Interviews
2022
“Elisa Sinett on her speculative memoir, Detroit Fairytales.” Great Lakes Review, June, 2022.
“Nick Rossi on his chapbook, Young Professional.” Great Lakes Review, August 2022.
“J. Estanislao Lopez on his poetry collection, We Borrowed Gentleness.” September 2022, 45th Parallel, 2022.
“Chen Chen on his book, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency.” Gasher Journal, October 2022.
“Aaron Foley on his book, Boys Come First.” Great Lakes Review, October 2022.
“Anthony DePietro for West Trade Review.” West Trade Review, Fall 2022.
“Gaia Rajan on her chapbook, Killing It.” Fauxmoir, November 2022.
“Zach Goldberg on his chapbook, XV.” Great Lakes Review, December 2022.
“Philip Schaefer on his book, Bad Summon.” Fauxmoir, December 2022.
2023
“Caroline Hagood on her book, Weird Girls.” Fauxmoir, January 2023.
“Kara Vernor on her chapbook, Because I Wanted To Write You A Pop Song.” Fauxmoir, January 2023.
“Anthony DiPietro on his forthcoming book, kiss + release.” Fauxmoir, April
2023.
“John Jodzio on his book, Knockout.” The Vestal Review, June 2023.
“Allison Blevins on her book, Cataloguing Pain.” Foglifter Journal. Summer 2023.
“Cleo Qian on her book, Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go.” The Adroit Journal. September 2023.
“Line Level#1: Poets of Color on Craft—featuring Sahar Muradi.” Frontier Poetry. October 2023.
“Line Level #2: Poets of Color on Craft—featuring Kevin Madrigal Galindo.” Frontier Poetry, December 2023.
2024
“Line Level #3: Poets of Color on Craft—featuring Jiwon Choi.” Frontier Poetry, January 2024.
“Line Level #4: Poets of Color on Craft—featuring Joshua Garcia.” Frontier Poetry, February 2024.
“Line Level #5: Poets of Color on Craft—featuring Khai Don.” Frontier Poetry, March 2024.
“Line Level #6: Poets of Color on Craft—featuring MJ Gomez.” Frontier Poetry, May 2024.
Selected Readings + Events
“F-Bomb NYC.” KGB Bar, New York City, New York. March, 2020.
“A Reading By Flexible Press Authors.” Open Book, Minneapolis, Minnesota. July, 2022.
“Arriving At A Shoreline Anthology Release (great weather for MEDIA).” Parkside Lounge, New York City, New York. August, 2022.
NYC Poetry Festival (great weather for MEDIA). Governor’s Island, New York City, New York. September, 2022.
“SALT. An Egocircus Collective Performance with Anne Carson and Robert Currie.” The NYU Creative Writers’ House, New York City, New York. September, 2022.
“Digging Press Presents: Lit Revue, A Night of Words And Music.” Arlo Nomad, New York City, New York, October 2022.
“List of Demands: Book Launch.” Unnameable Books, Brooklyn, New York, November 2022.
Boog City Arts Festival (Boog City Press). Young Ethel’s, Brooklyn, New York, February 2023.
NeuroNautic 5th Anniversary Reading. Otto’s Shrunken Head, Manhattan, New York, April, 2023.