Hello!
My name is Josie Levin. I am an Artist, Writer, and Educator living and working in Chicago. I receive a Bachelor's Degree from Butler University as a Double Major in Art + Design and English. I almost currently a Poet-In-Residence at The Chicago Poetry Center and Artist-In-Residence at The Chicago Danz Ensemble Theater. I have also been working as a Teaching Artist in Public and Private K-12 schools as well as running workshops for children and adults for 4 years. Below you can find some of my recent exhibition and publication experience.
Publications and Exhibitions
2025
Rooted in the Shoal Presented by the Brushwood Center - Art “Walking up the Dunes”
The Chicago Center for Art and Technology’s inaugural Pride Month Exhibition - Art “Dyke Night” *Featured Panelist
Mud Season Review Issue 78 - Featured Artist “4 works”
carte blanche Issue 51 - Graphic Narrative “playing worms”
Lucky Jefferson Fissure - Graphic Narrative "Greetings from Freakout Canyon”
The Florida Review 2025 - Graphic Narrative “Fishing”
Puerto Del Sol Spring 2025 Freak Issue - Poetry “Saw Trap Pop-Up”
Jaded Ibis Press - Poetry “2 poems” (upcoming)
So to Speak 2025 Print Issue - Art “3 works”
Ouch! Collective Volume 4 “skinny dripping” (reprint)
2024
34 Orchard Vol. 10 - Prose “Meeting Mary Bloody Thighs in a Convenience Store in Arkansas”
Denver Quarterly Vol58.3 - Poetry “For a second I forget…”
Byways Anthology by Arachne Press - Poetry “and your shoes are soaked but mine may dry if I lay them flat”
Redivider Blurred Genre Issue - Cover Art “World 1”
Neverland by Sword and Kettle Press - Cover Art “Love inc.”
2018-2023
Storysouth Fall 2023 Issue - Poetry “Dinah in the Trunk”
Coffin Bell Journal October Issue - Poetry “Helen enters Troy as a seahorse” *Pushcart Prize Nomination
Harpur’s Palate Ecotopia Issue - Poetry “World on purpose” Expression Graphics’ Her Voice: The Air We Breathe Exhibition - Charcoal Drawing “Landscape in ash”
A Shape Produced on a Curve Anthology by Great Weather for MEDIA - Poetry “holding cable television as it dies”
Propagule Magazine - Prose “Dead Girl Beach”
Bubble Magazine Issue Two - Comic Art “Witch Catching Fish”
Obsession Spring Show at The Third Street Gallery - Oil Painting “Lady by the Creek”
Costal Shelf Magazine - Poetry *Semifinalist in the FuCo Poetry Contest
Kitchen Table Quarterly - Poetry “Kentucky Breeds” *Pushcart Prize Nomination
Peatsmoke Journal - Poetry “skinny dripping” *Pushcart Prize Nomination
Plainsongs Poetry Magazine - Poetry “creatures are longer and more blind”
Nonbinary Review by Zoetic Press - Poetry “Burn Baby”
Longleaf Review - Prose “In Helsingor Cemetery”
Random Access Memory by Zoetic Press - Nonlinear Narrative (Reprint) “Amrita and I do the 2 Step”
Antithesis, Fall Issue - Acrylic Painting “On the town”
Up The Stairs Quarterly, November Issue - Acrylic Painting “Three Paintings” *Pushcart Prize Nomination
Koehnline Museum of Art, Women's Art Show Our Bodies, Our Health - Comic/Acrylic Painting “World 2”
