Joanna Rubery edited Oxford Dictionaries on and off for over fifteen years, went on to write and edit digital children’s books, and is currently working in the world of ELT publishing. She has also spent considerable time as a travelling writer and musician while teaching English around the world. So far she’s lived and worked in Belgium, Cambodia, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, Germany, Japan, India, and Spain. She’s also worked voluntarily in Peru, and spent a lot of time in Ireland.
Joanna’s travel writing and articles on language have been published by Oxford University Press, Wanderlust, and the Christchurch Press. She has also won and been placed in several Very Short Fiction competitions across the English-speaking world, and her short stories have been published in Narrative magazine and the Grindstone Literary Anthology. More recently, she was longlisted for the MsLexia first novel award. Joanna also writes and records her own songs, a selection of which are on Soundcloud.
