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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.