Joyelle McSweeney

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'''Joyelle McSweeney''' (born 1976) is a poet, playwright, novelist, critic, and professor at the [[University of Notre Dame]].<ref>[http://english.nd.edu/people/faculty/mcsweeney/ Department of English // University of Notre Dame]</ref> Her books include ''Death Styles'' (2024) from [[Nightboat Books]], ''Toxicon & Arachne'' (2021) from Nightboat Books, ''The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults'' (2014) from [[University of Michigan Press]], ''Salamandrine: 8 gothics'' (2013) and ''Nylund, the Sarcographer'' (2007), both from [[Tarpaulin Sky Press]], as well as ''Percussion Grenade'' (2012), ''Flet'' (2007), ''The Commandrine and Other Poems'' (2004), and ''The Red Bird'' (2001), the latter four published by [[Fence magazine|Fence Books]]. In addition to her books, she has published two plays; ''Dead Leaks, or, the Youths'' performed by Runaway Labs Theater in 2017, and ''The Contagious Knives'' performed at JumpStart Festival for New Writing. Her translations of [[Yi Sang]]: Selected Works (2020) were published alongside [[Don Mee Choi]], [[Jack Jung]], and Sawako Nakayasu by [[Wave Books]]. Her reviews appear at ''The Constant Critic'' and elsewhere, and her poetry has appeared in the ''[[Boston Review]]'', ''[[Poetry magazine]]'', ''[[Octopus Magazine]],'' ''[[GultCult]]'', and ''Tarpaulin Sky'', among other places. Along with her husband [[Johannes Göransson]], she is the founder of ''[[Action Books]]'' which has published a number of contemporary authors including [[Lara Glenum]], [[Tao Lin]], [[Arielle Greenberg]], and [[Hiromi Itō]]. She graduated from [[Harvard College]] (BA magna cum laude) as well as MPhil, Oxford University; MFA University of Iowa Writers Workshop.

Recent writing has appeared in ''TYPO 31'', ''Image Journal'', and Poetry Foundation on Kim Hyesoon and on John Keats.<ref>{{Cite web |title=TYPO 31: JOYELLE MCSWEENEY |url=https://www.typomag.com/issue31/mcsweeney.html |access-date=2024-05-17 |website=Typo Mag}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=A Shocking December Red |url=https://imagejournal.org/article/a-shocking-december-red/ |access-date=2024-05-17 |website=Image Journal |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-05-15 |title=How I Became a Rat by Joyelle McSweeney |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/160171/how-i-became-a-rat |access-date=2024-05-17 |website=Poetry Foundation |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-05-16 |title=Wrong Poets Society by Joyelle McSweeney |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/159594/wrong-poets-society |access-date=2024-05-17 |website=Poetry Foundation |language=en}}</ref>

McSweeney was awarded a [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] in 2022.<ref>[https://www.gf.org/fellows/joyelle-mcsweeney/ Joyelle McSweeney Fellow Page]</ref> In 2026, she was awarded the [[Windham-Campbell Prize]] for Poetry.<ref>{{Cite web |title=McSweeney, Joyelle |url=https://windhamcampbell.org/recipients/mcsweeney-joyelle |access-date=2026-05-21 |website=Windham-Campbell Prizes |language=en-US}}</ref>

On November 3, 2025, McSweeney became a [[Jeopardy!]] champion, with her final earnings totaling $17,700.<ref>{{Cite web |last=McMillan |first=Adah |date=November 4, 2025 |title=English department chair Joyelle McSweeney becomes Jeopardy champion |url=https://al.nd.edu/news/latest-news/english-department-chair-joyelle-mcsweeney-becomes-em-jeopardy-em-champion/ |url-status=live |access-date=November 4, 2025 |website=al.nd.edu/}}</ref>

== References == {{Reflist}}

== External links == * [https://nightboat.org/book/toxicon-and-arachne/ Joyelle McSweeney author page at Nightboat Books] * [https://www.press.umich.edu/7573327/necropastoral Book page for The Necropastoral at University of Michigan Press] * [http://www.actionbooks.org/ Action Books] * [https://tarpaulinsky.com/joyelle-mcsweeney/ Joyelle McSweeney author page at Tarpaulin Sky Press] *Joyelle McSweeney's poem [http://www.gulfcoastmag.org/index.php?n=3&si=17&s=2628 "Charisma" in ''Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts'' (23.1)]. *https://www.joyellemcsweeney.com/

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