Jodie Noel Vinson holds an MFA in non-fiction creative writing from Emerson College, where she developed a book about her literary travels. Her essays and reviews have been published or are forthcoming in Agni, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, Creative Non-Fiction, Lit Hub, The Rumpus, The Gettysburg Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Arkansas International, Nowhere Magazine, The Kenyon Review, Kyoto Journal, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among other places. 

Her work has been anthologized in Around the World and in Home is Elsewhere, nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and selected as “Notable Essay” in The Best American Travel Writing (2019) and The Best American Essays (2015, 2016, 2019). She is the recipient of the St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award, runner-up for the 2017 Berlin Writing Prize and finalist for the 2019 New Letters Nonfiction Award.

Jodie lives with her husband in Providence, where she is writing a book about insomnia, The Insomniac's Wife.