Josephine Wu
Josephine Wu is a writer and law student from New York City. She has been published in diode, Hobart, and Sine Theta Magazine. Besides receiving two Best of the Net nominations, she was also a Lannan Fellow for Poetics and Social Practice. She previously served as the Editor-in-Chief of The Anthem, Georgetown's oldest literary arts magazine.
Selected Awards
2024 Adroit Finalist for Prose
(judged by Kaveh Akbar)2024 Emilia Ferrara Award for Outstanding Thesis
2024 Annabelle Bonner Medal for Short Fiction
2024 Sine Theta Short Fiction Contest Winner
(judged by Kim Fu)2024 Best New Poets nominee
2023 Bernard M. Wagner Medal for Writing
2021, 2023 The Anthem Contest Winner
2021, 2022 Best of the Net nominee
Selected Publications
The Wound –– The Masters Review (forthcoming)
Bad Habits Anonymous –– The Adroit Journal
Manicure –– Sine Theta Magazine (print)
Slaughterhouse –– Sine Theta Magazine (print)
Shark Body –– Okay Donkey
toothless –– The Anthem
Don't Eat Rotten Food –– The Anthem
Louise doesn't mean to anglicize my name but –– Diode Poetry Journal
I Laugh at My Great-Grandmother's Funeral –– Hobart Pulp
Because My Mother is a Grave –– The Anthem
three poems –– Eunoia Review
love letter to a girl whose name ends in i –– The Georgetown Independent
water prayers –– Dishsoap Quarterly
farmland –– Kalopsia Literary Journal
I Found God in a Rice Paddy –– The Anthem