Josie Abugov is a journalist and fiction writer from Los Angeles. She’s an environment reporter at The Times-Picayune/NOLA.com in New Orleans. Before that, she worked as a reporter at Verite News, a nonprofit newsroom, where she covered the New Orleans cultural economy, city hall, health and other things.
She won the 2024 PEN/Dau Prize for best debut short story for “Daisy the Whale,” published in The Sewanee Review. Another piece of short fiction, “Leon Abramovich Runs the Mile,” was published in KWELI Journal.
She graduated from Harvard in 2023. Her senior thesis on a Louisiana Supreme Court case won the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for academic excellence. A short story she wrote won the Le Baron Russell Briggs Fiction Prize for best undergraduate story. While at Harvard, she edited The Crimson’s weekly magazine, Fifteen Minutes, and wrote a series of reported essays as a fellow for Harvard Magazine.
