JoAnna Novak’s memoir Contradiction Days is forthcoming from Catapult in July 2023. Her fourth book of poetry, DOMESTIREXIA, is forthcoming from Soft Skull Press in 2024. Novak’s short story collection Meaningful Work won the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest and was published by FC2. She is the author of the novel I Must Have You and three books of poetry: New Life; Abeyance, North America; and Noirmania. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and other publications.