About me

Originally from the UK, Joanna moved to the US in 2014 where she lives in South Florida with her husband, daughter, and their pets.

A chance poetry lesson in school started her writing in her early teens.

In 2016, she became an English teacher at a Title I high school, taking on the role of poetry club coach for the spoken word team, Write the Waves, who were three times placed in the semi-finals in the Florida state competition Louder Than a Bomb.

Joanna is currently an M.A. candidate at Nova Southeastern University in Composition, Rhetoric, and Digital Media, where she is also the graduate assistant coordinator for the SoFlo Writing Project, a new local site from the renowned National Writing Project.

Her typical week includes creating and managing social media output, researching and writing grant applications, website editing, and a lot of reading about writing and writing about writing.

Joanna enjoys running, cycling, rock climbing, and telling very bad jokes - an art form in itself.