Joanna Pearson

Joanna Pearson's short stories have recently appeared (or are forthcoming) in the Alaska Quarterly Review, Blackbird, Carve, Copper Nickel, The Hopkins Review, Joyland, The Mississippi Review, as well as others, and one of her stories has been noted a distinguished story in Best American Short Stories 2015 and anthologized in Best of the Net 2016. She is also the author of a book of poetry, Oldest Mortal Myth (Story Line Press, 2012), winner of the 2012 Donald Justice Prize and the 2014 Towson University Prize for Literature, and a young adult novel, The Rites and Wrongs of Janice Wills (Arthur A. Levine Books, 2011).