Sheri Joseph

Sheri Joseph teaches graduate and undergraduate fiction writing classes. She is the author of four books of fiction, including novels Where You Can Find Me and Stray and a cycle of stories, Bear Me Safely Over. She is the recipient of the Grub Street National Book Prize, two Booksense 76 selections, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her fourth book, a novel, Angels at the Gate, is forthcoming in September of 2025.

Her short fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals including The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Shenandoah, Virginia Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner and Other Voices and in the anthologies Birds in the Hand (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux), After O’Connor: Stories from Contemporary Georgia (University of Georgia Press), Men Undressed: Women Writers and the Male Sexual Experience (Other Voices/Dzanc Books), and Atlanta Noir (Akashic Books). Her short story “Imprints” was selected as one of the “Distinguished Stories of 2009” in Best American Short Stories. “The Elixir,” a story included in Bear Me Safely Over, was a finalist for the National Magazine Award. She has been awarded fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, The Kenyon Writers’ Workshop, the Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers, the Hambidge Center, the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, MacDowell, and Yaddo.

She has been featured in Vanity Fair and chosen as one of Creative Loafing‘s “20 People to Watch.”