Joselyn Takacs

Joselyn Takacs holds a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Southern California and an MFA in Fiction from Johns Hopkins University. Her fiction has appeared in Gulf Coast , Narrative , Tin House , Harvard Review , The Rumpus , DIAGRAM , Columbia: A Journal of Art and Literature , and elsewhere. She has published interviews and book reviews in the Los Angeles Review of Books and Entropy . Joselyn has taught writing at the University of Southern California and Johns...See more

Joselyn Takacs holds a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Southern California and an MFA in Fiction from Johns Hopkins University. Her fiction has appeared in Gulf Coast , Narrative , Tin House , Harvard Review , The Rumpus , DIAGRAM , Columbia: A Journal of Art and Literature , and elsewhere. She has published interviews and book reviews in the Los Angeles Review of Books and Entropy . Joselyn has taught writing at the University of Southern California and Johns Hopkins University. She lived in New Orleans at the time of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill, and in 2015, she received a grant to record the oral histories of Louisiana oyster farmers in the wake of the environmental disaster. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband. See less