The Publishing Triangle is proud to announce that Joe Okonkwo joined our Board in the winter of 2024.

Joe Okonkwo’s debut novel Jazz Moon won the Publishing Triangle’s Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. His short stories have appeared in Volume I Brooklyn, Global City Review, The Piltdown Review, The New Engagement, Storychord, Love Stories from Africa, and Strength. His story “Cleo” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Joe served as Prose Editor for Newtown Literary and he edited Best Gay Stories 2017. His story collection, Kiss the Scars on the Back of my Neck (Amble Press), was an Independent Book Publisher Awards silver medalist in the LGBT fiction category.

Please help us welcome Joe!

www.joeokonkwo.com

Twitter: @JoeOJazzMoon

Bluesky: @joeokonkwo.bsky.social