Joe Woodward

Joe Woodward is a native of California and currently lives in Claremont, California.  He is a four-time finalist and two-time winner of a Los Angeles Press Club Award.  His non-fiction has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, Poets & Writers Magazine,The Huffington Post and Brick.  His fiction and poetry have appeared in Carve, The Chariton Review, Passages North, Notre Dame Review, Zone 3 and elsewhere.

Joe received his BA in English at the University of Redlands and an MFA in English from Brooklyn College.  He is grateful to his teachers including Allen Ginsberg, L.S. Asekoff, Joan Larkin, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Ralph Angel, Bruce McAllister, and the many others. 

He can be reached at JoeWoodward015@gmail.com.

Select Publications: 

Books

Alive Inside the Wreck A Biography of Nathanael West -- O/R Books, NY

Non-Fiction

“I Have Never Been to Spain” — Brick, Winter 2020

Poetry

“Tilting” — Grist (forthcoming)

“I Do Wish to Be” — Grist (forthcoming)

“At First There Was Nothing” — Grist (forthcoming)

“I Had an Aunt” — New Ohio Review

“There Are Times When” — The Greensboro Review

“Self-Doubt” — Nine Cloud Journal

“What Was Left Was” — Broad River Review

“Lie Down” — The Bangalore Review

“It is Difficult” — Columbia Poetry Review

“What I Want to Say Is” — Columbia Poetry Review

“The Deer” — Soundings East

“Bird of Paradise” — Roanoke Review

“Ritual” — The Bookends Review

“There Were Signs” — Martin Lake Journal

“Monday, Late in the Day” — The Oakland Review

"Note to Myself" -- The Chariton Review

"The Plum Tree" -- The Chariton Review

"A Dead Cedar Waxwing" -- Yellow Chair Review

"The Story of a Killing" -- Carve

"Late Sunday Evening" -- Carve

Short Fiction

"At the Airport" -- Peregrine

"The Season of Her Imagination" -- Passages North

"Salad Days" -- Notre Dame Review

"Crossings" -- Connecticut Review

"Viola" -- Lake Effects

"The Decemberists" -- Zone 3

"The Autopsy" -- Southern Indiana Review

Profiles

"The Gun on the Table: Tobias Wolff -- Poets & Writers

"A Novelist's Inner Poet: Carol Muske Dukes -- Poets & Writers

"In Search of David Foster Wallace" -- Poets & Writers

"Welcome to Ellis Island: Bret Easton Ellis" -- Poets & Writers