— Publications —
Essays & Reviews by Jodie Noel Vinson
An essay published in North American Review.
Finalist for the Perkoff Prize in Nonfiction.
An essay published in the New Ohio Review.
Winner of New Ohio Review's Literary Award for Nonfiction.
Selected as Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2026.
An essay published in the anthology Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation.
A book review of Lindsay Starcks’ Monsters We Have Made published by North American Review.
An essay published in Ninth Letter.
Winner of the 2022 Ninth Letter Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction.
Selected as Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2023.
An essay published in Arts & Letters.
Awarded the Arts & Letters Susan Atefat Prize for Creative Nonfiction.
An essay published in LIGHT literary magazine.
Winner of the PEN-3 Prize for Storytelling.
A lyric essay published in Boulevard Vol 36, Nos 2 & 3
Finalist for Boulevard’s 2020 Nonfiction Contest.
Selected as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2022.
An essay published at WBUR’s Cognoscenti and aired on Boston Public Radio.
Selected as one of Cognoscenti’s “Best Stories of 2021.”
A book review of Nina MacLaughlin’s Summer Solstice, published online in Green Mountains Review.
An excerpt from The Insomniac’s Wife, published in Harvard Review.
Selected as Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2021.
An essay published in The New York Times.
Selected as a Top Pick by the Best Shortform Science Writing project.
A lyric essay originally published in Agni, reprinted online at Lit Hub.
Selected as Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2020.
A lyric essay published in Agni and online at Lit Hub.
Selected as Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2020.
A travel essay published in December magazine.
Selected as “Notable Travel Writing” in The Best American Travel Writing 2019.
A book review of Erling Kagge's Silence, In the Age of Noise, published in The Kenyon Review.
An essay published in Ploughshares.
Selected as “Notable Essay” in The Best American Essays 2019.
A lyric essay published in SAND and in Home is Elsewhere anthology.
Runner-up for the 2017 Berlin Writing Prize.
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
A book review of Lawrence Osborne's The Ballad of a Small Player published in Pleiades 35.2.
A travel essay published in Nowhere Magazine as a finalist for the Spring Travel Writing Contest.
A travel essay anthologized in Harvard Bookstore's Around the World: An Anthology of Travel Writing.
A travel essay published in The Gettysburg Review Summer 2015.
Selected as a "Notable Essay" in The Best American Essays 2016.
A book review of Marie Mutsuki Mockett's Where the Dead Pause and the Japanese Say Goodbye published in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
A book review of Valeria Luiselli's Sidewalks and Francisco Goldman's The Interior Circuit published in Green Mountains Review.
A travel essay published in Minerva Rising.
Selected as a "Notable Essay" in The Best American Essays 2015.
