Josina Guess is an assistant editor at Sojourners Magazine. Her essays, book reviews, features, and profiles are also in The Bitter Southerner, Oxford American, Fourth Genre, Ecotone, Christian Century, and more. She is a contributor to Bigger Than Bravery: Black Resilience in a Time of Pandemic edited by Valerie Boyd, Lookout Books, 2022. Some of her writing has been selected by Longreads.
Guess is a winner of the 2022 Georgia Writers Association John Lewis Writing Grant, the 2022 Nancy and Randall Burkett Award for Research in Black Print Culture in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University, and is a 2023 graduate of the low residency narrative nonfiction MFA program and host of Hear-Tell, a podcast of the University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
She lives near Athens, Georgia, with her husband, their four children, and several goats, chickens, cats, and dogs. Follow her on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @josinaguess. Farm life @stillrisefarm.
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