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 a piece of fiction published in The Sewanee Review.You can also read her fiction 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.
