Joanna Quinn is a fiction writer with a background in journalism. Her short stories have been published by The White Review, Comma Press, New Welsh Review and The Bridport Prize.

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She was chosen as an emerging writer as part of the Arvon/Jerwood mentoring scheme and was one of four writers shortlisted for the national Arts Foundation Fellowship for Short Stories.

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Some of her most recent publications include a story shortlisted for The White Review Short Story Prize 2015 and a specially commissioned short story for an Essex-based art project called Flood House. She has also written about the women of Greenham Common for a forthcoming anthology from Comma Press.

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She is currently working towards a PhD in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, where her supervisor is Francis Spufford. As part of this, she is writing her first novel. She lives in Dorset  and works for a charity.