Joy Amina Garnett is a writer and visual artist. Her short stories have appeared in Rusted Radishes, Evergreen Review, Ping-Pong, Nashville Review, ellipse, and elsewhere. She began writing about contemporary art for artnet magazine in 1999 with the launch of her column, “Into Africa.” Her essays have appeared in Harper’s, Art21 Magazine, and Arab Urbanism Magazine, and she has contributed chapters to scholarly books, notably: Virilio Now (Polity, 2011), Virilio and Visual Culture (Edinburgh University Press, 2013), and Cultural Entanglement in the Pre-Independence Arab World: Arts, Thought, and Literature (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury, 2020). Her honors include an Anonymous Was A Woman award for her paintings, which have been exhibited at MoMA PS1, Whitney Museum of American Art, FLAG Art Foundation, Artists Space, White Columns, Milwaukee Art Museum, Bristol Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Craft Portland, Boston University Art Gallery, National Academy of Sciences, and the Smithsonian. She received a fellowship from Yaddo to work on The Bee Kingdom (Gaudy Boy, December 2026), an advance excerpt of which was Longlisted for the 2024 First Pages Prize in Creative Nonfiction. Garnett is working on her next book, a novel set in 1980s New York, Paris, and Varanasi. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband.
Contact: joy.garnett [@] gmail.com
Joy Amina Garnett 
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