Joselyn Takacs

Joselyn Takacs is a writer and teacher based in Portland. She is the author of Pearce Oysters, a 2024 best book of summer pick by Elle and the New York Post. Pearce Oysters is a family drama set during the 2010 BP Oil Spill. She lived in New Orleans at the time of the spill, and in 2015, she received a grant to record the oral histories of Louisiana oyster farmers in the wake of the environmental disaster.
Her short fiction has appeared in Gulf Coast, Narrative, Tin House online, Harvard Review, The Rumpus, DIAGRAM and elsewhere. She contributes interviews and book reviews to the Los Angeles Review of Books. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Southern California and an MFA in Fiction from Johns Hopkins University.