ABOUT
Joy Amina Garnett is a visual artist and writer. She received a fellowship from Yaddo to work on her memoir, The Bee Kingdom (Gaudy Boy, December 2026), an advance excerpt of which was Longlisted for the 2024 First Pages Prize in Creative Nonfiction. Her short stories have appeared in Rusted Radishes, Evergreen Review, Ping-Pong, Nashville Review, ellipse, and elsewhere. She began writing about art in 1999 with her column “Into Africa” at artnet magazine. Since then, her essays have appeared in journals such as Harper’s, Art21 Magazine, and Arab Urbanism Magazine. She has contributed chapters to scholarly books, including: 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 (Bloomsbury, 2020). She is a recipient of an award from Anonymous Was A Woman 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 lives with her husband in Los Angeles and is working on a novel set in 1980s New York, Paris, and Varanasi.
Contact: joy.garnett [@] gmail.com
Joy Amina Garnett 
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