Jodie Noel Vinson

Jodie Noel Vinson holds an MFA in nonfiction creative writing from Emerson College. Her essays have been published in The New York Times, Harvard Review, Electric Literature, Ploughshares, Literary Hub, and AGNI, among other places. She is the recipient of the Arts & Letters Susan Atefat Prize for Creative Nonfiction, the Ninth Letter Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction, the Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers, and a residency from the Jentel Foundation. www.jodienoelvinson.com

In Defense of Aunt Léonie

Jodie Noel Vinson

Published in Issue 63.3: Summer 2024 Why We Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review reader Erica Webb on why she recommended “In Defense of Aunt Léonie” by Jodie Noel Vinson. The way Jodie Noel Vinson introduces Marcel Proust’s Léonie to us in her essay, “In Defense of Aunt Léonie,” is striking with a series of fragmented thoughts threaded together. This […]

In Defense of Aunt Léonie Read More »

By Jodie Noel Vinson