Talya Jankovits is an award-winning writer. Her essays, fiction, and poetry have been published in various magazines. Her story Undone, in Lunch Ticket was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and her short story, Golem Mother of the Catskills received an Honorable Mention in the 2024 Moment Magazine’s Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest as well as in the 2024 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest. Her poem, My Father Is A Psychologist published in BigCityLit, was nominated for both a Pushcart prize and The Best of the Net. Her micro piece Bus Stop in Morning won one of Beyond Words Magazine’s 250-word challenges. Her Poem, Guf was the recipient of the Editor’s Choice Award in Arkana Magazine and nominated for the Best of Net. Her poem, A Woman of Valor, was featured in the 2019/2020 Eshet Hayil exhibit at Hebrew Union College Los Angeles. Her collection of poems, girl woman wife mother, (Kelsay Books, 2024) received First Place in Contemporary Poetry in the 2024 Bookfest Awards. She holds her MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University and resides in Chicago with her husband and four daughters.
