Joanna Michal Hoyt

Joanna Michal Hoyt lives with her family on a Catholic Worker farm in rural upstate New York where she tends goats, gardens, guests and neighbors during the day. In the evening she reads and writes odd stories. The stories she loves most bring her compassionately inside the minds and lives of people who are very different, celebrate the wonder that fills the world, and give her a fresh perspective on the thorny issues she wrestles with during the day. Her experiences farming in an increasingly unstable climate and working intermittently with immigrants and refugees inform her story "In the Days of El Dorado," which appears in Not A Pipe's anthology Shout. Her story “The Judgment of Josephine K.” is included in Denial Kills: An Anthology of Poetry and Short Fiction. Propertius Press will publish her historical novel Cracked Reflections in May 2021. More of her previously published short stories can be seen online at https://joannamichalhoyt.com/