Joe Okonkwo's novel Jazz Moon, set against the backdrop of the Harlem Renaissance and glittering Jazz Age Paris, will be published by Kensington Books in May 2016. David Ebershoff, author of The Danish Girl and The 19th Wife has called Jazz Moon "A passionate, alive, and original novel about love, race, and jazz in 1920s Harlem and Paris a moving story of traveling far to find oneself."
His short stories have appeared in a variety of print and online venues including Promethean, Penumbra Literary Magazine, Cooper Street, Storychord, LGBTsr.org, Chelsea Station, Shotgun Honey, Best Gay Stories 2015, Rind Literary Magazine, Em Dash Literary Magazine, Best Gay Love Stories 2009, and Keep This Bag Away From Children.
Joe is Prose Editor for Newtown Literary, a journal featuring work by writers from Queens, New York.
In 2017 he will take the reins as Editor of the annual Best Gay Stories anthology published by Lethe Press.
A cum laude graduate of the University of Houston with a B.A. in theatre, Joe made his living in theatre for a number of years as an actor, stage manager, director, playwright, and youth theatre instructor.
He earned an MFA in Creative Writing from City College of New York.
His short stories have appeared in a variety of print and online venues including Promethean, Penumbra Literary Magazine, Cooper Street, Storychord, LGBTsr.org, Chelsea Station, Shotgun Honey, Best Gay Stories 2015, Rind Literary Magazine, Em Dash Literary Magazine, Best Gay Love Stories 2009, and Keep This Bag Away From Children.
Joe is Prose Editor for Newtown Literary, a journal featuring work by writers from Queens, New York.
In 2017 he will take the reins as Editor of the annual Best Gay Stories anthology published by Lethe Press.
A cum laude graduate of the University of Houston with a B.A. in theatre, Joe made his living in theatre for a number of years as an actor, stage manager, director, playwright, and youth theatre instructor.
He earned an MFA in Creative Writing from City College of New York.
Genres: Literary Fiction
