Jodie Noel Vinson
Cognoscenti contributor
Jodie Noel Vinson is a writer based in Providence, Rhode Island. Her essays and reviews have been published in The New York Times, Harvard Review, Agni, The Rumpus, Ploughshares and Creative Non-fiction, among other places.
Recently published
The COVID vaccine is health care. And a way of remembering
It can be easy to forget pain that is no longer present in our lives, writes Jodie Noel Vinson, of the four-year battle with long COVID she and her husband...
Art reminds me that illness is part of our shared landscape
Illness is a part of every life, in one form or another, writes Jodie Noel Vinson. We just have to be open to seeing it.
'Just When You Think It's Over, It Comes On Again': My Year With Long-Haul COVID
One in three people who contract COVID still experience symptoms after nine months. Jodie Noel Vinson and her husband fell ill last March -- 365 days later, she writes, it’s...
'What Mattered Was That I Had Been Present': Saying A Long-Distance Goodbye To My Grandmother
As our minds grapple with ways to be with each other across unfathomable distances, writes Jodie Noel Vinson, there are miraculous and mysterious ways to be present with those we...