On May 3rd, 2018, Joanna Ruocco reading from her body of work as part of the Creative Writing Reading Series.
Joanna Ruocco听is an assistant professor of Creative Writing in the English Department at Wake Forest University. She earned an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University and a PhD in Fiction from the University of Denver. She has published several books, including听Another Governess / The Least Blacksmith: A Diptych, which won the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize (judged by Ben Marcus), and most recently,听Dan (Dorothy, a publishing project). Ruocco also works pseudonymously as Alessandra Shahbaz (Ghazal in the Moonlight, Midnight Flame) and Toni Jones (No Secrets in Spandex). Her stories have appeared in numerous journals including听NOON,听Conjunctions,听Black Warrior Review,听Caketrain,听Bidoun,听Quarterly West,听Western Humanities Review,听The Fanzine,听Marginalia,听3 AM Magazine,听The Brooklyn Rail, and听Harp & Altar.