Publications — Jodie Noel Vinson

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Essays & Reviews by Jodie Noel Vinson

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In Defense of Aunt Léonie

A lyric essay forthcoming in Michigan Quarterly Review.

Flight Paths

An essay in Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation, an anthology forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press.

The Forty Steps

A lyric essay forthcoming in The Ocean State Review.

Monsters We Have Made

A book review published by North American Review.

Flight of the Painted Lady

A lyric essay published in Passages North.

Self-Portrait After Covid-19: A Triptych

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.

First Do No Harm

An essay published in Arts & Letters.

Awarded the Arts & Letters Susan Atefat Prize for Creative Nonfiction.

Patient, Heal Thyself

An essay published in the Disability Justice issue of The Massachusetts Review.

Flightless

An essay published in Raritan Quarterly Review.

What Florence Nightingale Could Tell Us About Long Covid

An essay published in LIGHT literary magazine.

Winner of the PEN-3 Prize for Storytelling.

Check And Report Everyday

A lyric essay published in Fugue.

Travel in the Time of the Coronavirus

A travel essay published in Silk Road Review.

A Shared Landscape

An essay published by WBUR’s Cognoscenti.

The Two Sides of American Healthcare

An essay published by Catapult.

The Beautiful Sick Man

A lyric essay published in SICK magazine.

Frank Sinatra Has a Cold. It's 2021.

A cover essay published by Essay Daily.

What You Have to Lose

A lyric essay published in Tendon.

We Are All Travelers Now

An essay published online at Agni.

The Midwest Essay is Strong and Limber

A lyric essay published on Essay Daily.

Against Lachesis

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.

Unighted

An essay published online by The Pinch.

My Year With Long-Haul Covid

An essay published at WBUR’s Cognoscenti and aired on Boston Public Radio.

Selected as one of Cognoscenti’s “Best Stories of 2021.”

Saying a Long-Distance Goodbye to My Grandmother

An essay published by WBUR’s Cognoscenti.

"Piranesi" is a Dispatch from the Kingdom of Chronic Illness

An essay published by Electric Literature.

Summer Solstice

A book review of Nina MacLaughlin’s Summer Solstice, published online in Green Mountains Review.

In Circadia

An excerpt from The Insomniac’s Wife, published in Harvard Review.

Selected as Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2021.

Whipped by the 'Long Tail' of the Coronavirus

An essay published in The New York Times.

Selected as a Top Pick by the Best Shortform Science Writing project.

Unrequited Reader

An essay published online at World Literature Today.

95 Theses on Lord Byron, Graffiti and Bathroom Stalls

A lyric essay originally published in Agni, reprinted online at Lit Hub.

Selected as Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2020.

Byron Was Here

A lyric essay published in Agni and online at Lit Hub.

Selected as Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2020.

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The Collectors

A lyric essay published in The Arkansas International.

Motherhood

A book review of Sheila Heti’s Motherhood published in Literary Mama.

Thirty-Six Times

A lyric essay published online by Kyoto Journal.

Mother Russia

A travel essay published in December magazine.

Selected as “Notable Travel Writing” in The Best American Travel Writing 2019.

Insomniac City: New York, Oliver and Me

A book review of Bill Hayes' Insomniac City published in Brevity.

Silence, In the Age of Noise

A book review of Erling Kagge's Silence, In the Age of Noise, published in The Kenyon Review.

Transparent

An essay published in Ploughshares.

Selected as “Notable Essay” in The Best American Essays 2019.

Thirty-Six Times

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.

Insomnia's Partners

An essay published on Arianna Huffington's Thrive Global.

Shoulder Season

A travel essay published in the Summer Adaptation issue of Creative Non-Fiction.

The Unprotected Females of the Women's Rest Tour Association

An essay published in The Massachusetts Review.

The Ballad of a Small Player

A book review of Lawrence Osborne's The Ballad of a Small Player published in Pleiades 35.2.

Thursday's Child

A travel essay published in Nowhere Magazine as a finalist for the Spring Travel Writing Contest.

Elephant Complex

A book review of John Gimlette's Elephant Complex, published in The Rumpus.

Searching for Saudade

A travel essay anthologized in Harvard Bookstore's Around the World: An Anthology of Travel Writing.

The Way to Swann's House

A travel essay published in The Gettysburg Review Summer 2015.

Selected as a "Notable Essay" in The Best American Essays 2016.

Deep Down Dark

A book review published in Rain Taxi, Volume 19, Number 4 Winter.

Grief is a Two-Way Street

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.

You Are Here: The Art of Travel Writing

An essay published on the Loft Literary Center's Writers' Block.

The Interior Sidewalks of Mexico City

A book review of Valeria Luiselli's Sidewalks and Francisco Goldman's The Interior Circuit published in Green Mountains Review.

Sleeping in on Sundays

A travel essay published in Minerva Rising.

Selected as a "Notable Essay" in The Best American Essays 2015.

Searching for Saudade

A travel essay published in issue fifteen of Outside In Literary & Travel Magazine.

The Woman Upstairs

A book review of Claire Messud's The Woman Upstairs published in Literary Matters 6.3.

To Know a Bean

A travel essay published in The Concord Saunterer.