Joanna Quinn is an award-winning writer based in Dorset. Joanna was born in London in 1976. She studied English Literature and Language at Salford University before training as a journalist, working at several newspapers in the West Country. She has since completed an Mphil in Creative Writing at the University of Glamorgan.

Her fiction has been published in various anthologies and magazines including New Welsh Review, Leaf Books, the Bridport Prize, Obsessed With Pipework, and Staple. She has also been successful in several international short story competitions. In 2009, she was chosen as one of three gifted writers to be mentored by Booker-nominated author Romesh Gunesekera as part of a national scheme run by the Arvon and Jerwood Foundations, and in 2011, she was one of four writers shortlisted for the Arts Foundation Fellowship for Short Stories.

Joanna is now working on a short story collection and a novel. She also runs creative writing workshops near her home in Dorset.

Details about the Arvon/Jerwood Mentoring Scheme available here.
Details about the Arts Foundation Fellowships available here.