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about Joanna (Yanna) Demkiewicz
Joanna (Yanna) Demkiewicz is a writer with experience in books, magazines, and marketing. 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. She led marketing, publicity and sales for Milkweed Editions for eight years (2015-2023). Her writing can be found in Midwest Review, Literary Hub, Guernica, Nylon and the Los Angeles Review. 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
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"
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.
Find her on Instagram and LinkedIn.
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