Joy Reeves

Email: JDRvs@aol.com

MFA Fiction Writing, Columbia College Chicago IL
Lila Wallace/Readers Digest Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester MA

Short stories published:
The Backbone, Hairtrigger 18
Semantics, Minerva Quarterly
The Gentleman's Club, Writers Journal

Articles:
Zen and the Art of Teaching in Chicago
Field Trip Journals: Putting Meat on the Bones
A Night at Bright
Still Here: A Community History Collaborative
Connecting to the Future, The Orbit(NASA Newsletter)

Awards:
Scholastic Press Association, Third Place, "The Backbone"
North Texas Professional Writers Assoc, First Place, "The Gentlemen's Club"
North Texas Professional Writers Assoc, Second Place, "Bound Over"
Midwest Writers Conference, First Place, "Bound Over"

Completed Manuscripts
"Bound Over," Children's historical fiction on indentured servants in colonial Philadelphia
"BAMs," Women's fiction on enlisted Women Marines in 1975

Interests: women's fiction, children's historical fiction

Published writer: Yes

Freelance: Yes

Published works:

Fiction