Author: JoAnneh Nagler

JoAnneh Nagler is the author of the fiction collection Stay with Me, Wisconsin (Coyote Point Press, 2022) featured in Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2022, winner of The Global Book Award, The Eric Hoffer Book Award, a Montaigne Medal finalist, and story nominated for The Pushcart Prize for Fiction. She has authored three nonfiction books: How to Be an Artist Without Losing Your Mind, Your Shirt, or Your Creative Compass (W.W. Norton); Naked Marriage (Skyhorse Publishing); and The Debt-Free Spending Plan (HarperCollins), two of which were Amazon Top-100 titles. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, The Huffington Post, Essence Magazine, Medium.com, LiveStrong Magazine and many more. Recently awarded the League of PEN Women Achiever Award, she wrote and directed the play Ruby and George in Love (Sonoma Arts Live Theatre Company), and composed two singer-songwriter albums, I Burn and Enraptured, available in all outlets. In television, she’s written screenplays for Schrodinger’s Cat Productions and major networks, worked development for ABC Pictures, and wrote special projects for Rob Reiner. Recent literary work has appeared in the journals New Haven Review, Persephone, Glimmer Train, Rundelania, Gold Man Review, You Might Need to Hear This, and Mobius. Her work has been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and Stanford University’s Creative Writing program, where she studied with Lynn Stegner. She is a founding member of The Pacific Coast Writer’s Collective and has completed a new novel, Under the Key West Moon. www.AnArtistryLife.com.