Originally from Northwest Indiana, Josie Tolin currently lives in Atlanta, where she is the Fiction Fellow at Emory University. Her work has received support from Sewanee Writers Conference, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, The Hambidge Center, and more. Her short stories are featured or forthcoming in The Best American Short Stories 2026, Oxford American, The Iowa Review, The Rumpus, Michigan Quarterly Review, Five Points, and elsewhere. Her story collection manuscript, GATHER THE ANIMALS, was recently shortlisted for the Granum Prize. She is also at work on a novel.

Email me: josie.tolin@gmail.com