Joy Amina Garnett is an Arab American writer and visual artist from New York, now living in Los Angeles. She spent her undergraduate years studying Arabic at McGill University and the American University in Cairo. After graduating from McGill, she enrolled at the École des Beaux-arts in Paris to study painting, returning to New York to finish her MFA at City College. Garnett began writing regularly for artnet magazine with the 1999 launch of her column, “Into Africa.” Her essays have appeared in Harper’s, Arab Urbanism Magazine, Art21 Magazine, M/E/A/N/I/N/G, and in the chapters of several books, most recently Cultural Entanglement in the Pre-Independence Arab World: Arts, Thought, and Literature (IB Tauris / Bloomsbury, 2020). Her short stories have been published in Rusted Radishes, Evergreen Review, Ping-Pong, Nashville Review, ellipse, and elsewhere. In 2024, she became a fellow at Yaddo to work on her memoir, The Bee Kingdom, an advance excerpt of which was Longlisted for the 2024 First Pages Prize in Creative Nonfiction. Other 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, Milwaukee Art Museum, the Smithsonian, and elsewhere. Garnett has served as the Art Director of the Evergreen Review since 2019. The Bee Kingdom is her first book.
Contact: joy.garnett [@] gmail.com
Joy Amina Garnett 
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