Essays & Reviews by Jodie Noel Vinson
An essay published in the New Ohio Review.Winner of New Ohio Review's 2024 Literary Award for Nonfiction.
An essay in Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation, an anthology forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press.
A prose poem forthcoming in Fence.
A lyric essay published in Michigan Quarterly Review.
A lyric essay published in The Ocean State Review.
A book review published by North American Review.
A lyric essay published in Passages North.
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 the Disability Justice issue of The Massachusetts Review.
An essay published in Raritan Quarterly Review.
An essay published in LIGHT literary magazine.Winner of the PEN-3 Prize for Storytelling.
A lyric essay published in Fugue.
A travel essay published in Silk Road Review.
An essay published by WBUR’s Cognoscenti.
An essay published by Catapult.
A lyric essay published in SICK magazine.
A cover essay published by Essay Daily.
A lyric essay published in Tendon.
An essay published online at Agni.
A lyric essay published on Essay Daily.
A lyric essay published in Boulevard Vol 36, Nos 2 & 3Finalist for Boulevard’s 2020 Nonfiction Contest.Selected as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2022.
An essay published online by The Pinch.
An essay published at WBUR’s Cognoscenti and aired on Boston Public Radio.Selected as one of Cognoscenti’s “Best Stories of 2021.”
An essay published by Electric Literature.
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.
An essay published online at World Literature Today.
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.
A lyric essay published in The Arkansas International.
A book review of Sheila Heti’s Motherhood published in Literary Mama.
A lyric essay published online by Kyoto Journal.
A travel essay published in December magazine.
Selected as “Notable Travel Writing” in The Best American Travel Writing 2019.
A book review of Bill Hayes' Insomniac City published in Brevity.
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.
An essay published on Arianna Huffington's Thrive Global.
A travel essay published in the Summer Adaptation issue of Creative Non-Fiction.
An essay published in The Massachusetts Review.
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 book review of John Gimlette's Elephant Complex, published in The Rumpus.
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 published in Rain Taxi, Volume 19, Number 4 Winter.
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.
An essay published on the Loft Literary Center's Writers' Block.
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.
A travel essay published in issue fifteen of Outside In Literary & Travel Magazine.
A book review of Claire Messud's The Woman Upstairs published in Literary Matters 6.3.
A travel essay published in The Concord Saunterer.