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about Joanna (Yanna) Demkiewicz
Joanna (Yanna) Demkiewicz is a gardener and writer with experience in magazines. She co-founded The Riveter (2013-2018) and produced a limited edition magazine called Before I Became Time (2020) to raise money for the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop. Her writing can be found in Midwest Review, Literary Hub, Guernica, Nylon and the Los Angeles Review. Her short story “Elastic,” published by the Midwest Review, was selected as a winner of the 2025 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize and will be featured in Best Debut Short Stories 2025: The PEN America Dau Prize, out from Catapult Fall 2025. She is currently studying massage therapy at Northwestern Health Sciences University and is a certified Master Gardener. She lives in Minneapolis.
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WRITING, etc.
FICTION
Midwest Review | “Elastic” Issue 11
interviews / ESSAYS
Nylon | “Jia Tolentino Tells the Stories of Generation Scammer”
Nylon | “June Eric-Udorie: Mainstream Feminism is a Mess—So What’s Next?”
Guernica | "Louise Erdrich: Reproductive Nightmares, Real and Imagined"
reviews
The Los Angeles Review | “Review: Belly Up by Rita Bullwinkel”
The Los Angeles Review | "Review: Goodbye, Sweet Girl by Kelly Sundberg"
NEWS
PEN America | Winners of the 2025 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize
longform
Literary Hub | "Breaking Up the Boys Club: On Women in the Rare Books"
Women's eNews | "This Time, a Rwandan Man Listened to a Story of Rape"
BOOKS
The Sager Group | Newswomen: Twenty-Five Years of Front Page Journalism
The Sager Group | New Stories We Tell: True Tales By America’s New Generation of Great Women Journalists
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CONTACT
To contact Yanna,
email her at j.r.demkiewicz@gmail.com.
Read her Substack.
Find her on Instagram and LinkedIn.
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