Josina Guess

Josina Guess is an assistant editor at Sojourners Magazine. Her essays, book reviews, features, and profiles are also in The Bitter Southerner, Oxford American, Fourth Genre, Ecotone, Christian Century, and more.

She is a contributor to the anthologies Light for the Way: Seeking Simplicity, Connection, and Repair in a Broken World edited by Rose Marie Berger (Broadleaf 2026), the forthcoming Holy the Words: The Craft of Spiritual Writing, A Writing Craft Anthology by Voices from the Collegeville Institute, edited by Patrice Gopo and Ellie Roscher (Broadleaf 2027) and Bigger Than Bravery: Black Resilience in a Time of Pandemic edited by Valerie Boyd, Lookout Books, 2022. Some of her writing has been selected by Longreads.

Guess is a winner of the 2022 Georgia Writers Association John Lewis Writing Grant, the 2022 Nancy and Randall Burkett Award for Research in Black Print Culture in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University, and is a 2023 graduate of the low residency narrative nonfiction MFA program and host of Hear-Tell, a podcast of the University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.

She lives near Athens, Georgia, with her husband, their four children, several chickens, cats, dogs and a snake. Follow her on Facebook, Instagram, and BlueSky @josinaguess.