Joanna Ruocco
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University of Denver (PhD)
Joanna Ruocco | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Brown University (MFA) University of Denver (PhD) |
Joanna Ruocco is an American author and was a co-editor of the fiction journal Birkensnake and serves as the Chair of the Editorial Board of Fiction Collective Two.[1][2][3]
In 2011, Ruocco was the winner of the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize for Another Governess / The Least Blacksmith.[4] In 2013, she received the Pushcart Prize for her story "If the Man Took". Ruocco received her MFA at Brown, and a Ph.D. in creative writing from the University of Denver. She also serves as professor in creative writing at Wake Forest University.[5][6]
Ruocco publishes romance novels as Joanna Lowell, and has also written under the pseudonyms Toni Jones and, with Radhika Singh, Alessandra Shahbaz.[7][8]
