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Joanna Ruocco

Professor of English in Creative Writing | Co-Director, Dillon Johnston Writers Reading Series | Chair of the Editorial Board, Fiction Collective Two

Degrees

  • PhD University of Denver
  • MFA Brown University
  • BA Brown University

Areas of Interest

  • 20th and 21st century innovative fiction and cross-genre texts
  • Popular romance
  • Narrative theory

Editorial Work 

Selected Book Publications

  • A Shore Thing, as Joanna Lowell (Berkley / Penguin 2024)
  • Artfully Yours, as Joanna Lowell (Berkley / Penguin 2023)
  • The Runaway Duchess, as Joanna Lowell (Berkley / Penguin 2022)
  • The Duke Undone, as Joanna Lowell (Berkley / Penguin 2021)
  • The Week (The Elephants of British Columbia Press, 2017)
  • Field Glass, a collaboration with Joanna Howard (Sidebrow Press, 2017)
  • Dark Season, as Joanna Lowell (Crimson Romance, Simon & Schuster, 2016)
  • Dan (Dorothy, a publishing project, 2014)
  • Another Governess / The Least Blacksmith (FC2 / University of Alabama Press, 2012)  
  • A Compendium of Domestic Incidents (Noemi Press, 2011)
  • Man’s Companions (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2010)
  • The Mothering Coven (Ellipsis Press, 2009)