Jodie Noel Vinson holds an MFA in non-fiction creative writing from Emerson College. Her essays and reviews have been published in Harvard Review, The New York Times, Literary Hub, Ploughshares, Electric Literature, Agni, Ninth Letter, Michigan Quarterly Review, Creative Nonfiction, The Gettysburg Review, Fugue, The Massachusetts Review, Arts & Letters, Nowhere Magazine, World Literature Today, Kyoto Journal, SICK magazine, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among other places. 

A 2023 Bread Loaf Scholar, she is the recipient of the Ninth Letter Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction, the Arts & Letters Susan Atefat Prize for Creative Nonfiction, the New Ohio Review Literary Award in Nonfiction, the PEN-3 Prize in Storytelling, the Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers, and a residency from The Jentel Foundation. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and selected as Notable Essay in The Best American Essays and The Best American Travel Writing.

Jodie lives with her husband in Providence, where she serves the Rhode Island writing community as Program Director at a literary arts nonprofit.