Joanna Urban
Joanna is an author and public relations strategist who resides in Washington, DC. Her short fiction and essays have been published by Grace & Gravity, Gargoyle, the Washington Writers Publishing House, and Sunspot Lit, among other places. She writes a bimonthly Substack about storytelling and the writing life at penandprose.substack.com and is currently at work on a novel.
Read an excerpt of “Three Points of Contact”:
While her husband, Trey, was at work that October day, Aimee skittered around the apartment finishing packing. She felt like an intruder in someone else’s home as she gathered her most essential belongings. The rest of the space in the suitcase was full of clothes that she had slowly packed over the past few weeks, not wanting her wardrobe to appear to shrink too rapidly. It was Halloween night, and they were getting ready to watch The Shining (or so Trey thought), when Aimee ducked into their bedroom to retrieve the suitcase.
“Three Points of Contact” in Grace in Love (print), Volume X of Grace and Gravity, May 2023
“A Real Writer” in WWPH (Washington Writers Publishing House) Writes, issue 46, March 2023
“Valentine” in Sunspot Lit, Volume 4, issue 2, June 2022
“The Poor Guy” in Belle Ombre magazine, April 2021
“How Mindfulness Helped Me Through the Pandemic,” in Zibby Mag, March 2021
“How to Rescue Yourself with a Dog,” in District Lit, October 2020
“The Only Goal is to Breathe,” in Yoga Digest, 2017
Joanna Urban 