Long-form fiction
Novels
The Star: The Warrior Woman and The Guilty—two works exploring what history, memory, and desire ask us to carry.
Both coming soon →Literary & historical speculative fiction
Joy Felkey
Stories of hidden truths, inherited mysteries, and the strange light that escapes through the cracks.
Writer · Reader · MFA candidate at VCFA
About
The writer behind the work
Queens always wear tiaras.
Joy Felkey writes literary fiction and historical speculative fiction, with a particular affection for the stories families tell—and the ones they refuse to.
Based in Atlanta, Joy is an MFA candidate at Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA). Her work explores unreliable memory, inheritance, grief, desire, and the uneasy border between history and the imagination.
She is developing short fiction and a historical dark-fantasy novel that moves between the present and fifteenth-century Milan.
Selected work
Writing
Novels, short stories, and brief encounters with the uncanny.
Short fiction
Selected Stories
Literary fiction about grief, family mythology, memory, and the truths people preserve by refusing to examine them.
Read an excerpt from The Elides →Stories in miniature
Flash Fiction
Brief, concentrated stories built around the instant ordinary life tilts into something stranger.
Coming soon →From the writing desk
News & Notes
Reading, writing, revising.
Updates from the MFA journey at VCFA, thoughts on craft and reading, and news about work as it moves toward publication.
Contact
Let's talk.
For agents, editors, publishers, literary events, or general correspondence, I'd love to hear from you.
hello@joyfelkey.com
Follow the work in progress
Between the drafts
Books on my desk, questions I can't stop asking, and the occasional honest dispatch from an MFA in progress.
Follow @joyfelkey for reading notes, writing life, and whatever keeps slipping between the lines.