Joselyn Takacs is a PhD candidate in creative writing and literature at the University of Southern California. She holds an MFA in fiction from Johns Hopkins University. Her writing has appeared in Narrative, Tin House Online, Harvard Review, The Rumpus, DIAGRAM, Columbia: A Journal of Art and Literature, and elsewhere. She was featured as one of Narrative magazine’s top writers under 30. She teaches writing at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles, where she is at work on a novel about the 2010 BP oil spill.
Joselyn Takacs
Articles
One-Night Stands with Wild Strangers
Joselyn Takacs interviews Amy Silverberg about her debut novel, “First Time, Long Time.”
De-Melanization Procedure: A Conversation with Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Joselyn Takacs talks with writer Maurice Carlos Ruffin about his new novel, "We Cast a Shadow."
Look at Your Game, Girl
Emma Cline’s “The Girls” is the coming-of-age story of a 14-year-old girl who falls in with a Manson-like cult just months before a night of brutal murders.
Grief and Transformation
"The Narrow Door" is a memoir about how grief transforms us.
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