Joy Notoma is a fiction writer, essayist, and journalist.
Her writing has been published in Ploughshares, Longreads, Catapult, CNN, and elsewhere.
Joy co-founded BWWE, a nonprofit that uplifts Black womxn writers living in Europe by providing a supportive ecosystem for their literary pursuits.
She is the host of Emerging Writers Community Podcast, where she interviews early career BIPOC creative writers in a roundtable discussion with the audience. Joy also started the first ever Europe Chapter of Women Who Submit, an organization that empowers women and non-binary writers to submit literary work for publication.
She is a workshop leader with New York Writers Coalition and leads in-person creative writing workshops in Toulouse, France where she lives.
She holds an MA in journalism from The Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and is an MFA candidate in fiction at Warren Wilson College where she is a Holden Scholar.
Joy is a 2023 Sustainable Arts Foundation awardee, a 2022 Kimbilio fellow, a 2023 Roots.Wounds.Words fellow and an alum of Tin House and The Hurston/Wright Foundation.
She is writing a novel and a short story collection.