Joanna fell in love with history when she was ten and saw Raiders of the Lost Ark. Since then, like Indy going after priceless artifacts, she has pursued the stories in history not told. The ones that have fallen through the cracks, or live behind the scenes.

With an MA in History, Joanna has taught classical history and mythology for seventeen years, illuminating for her students the stories the textbooks don't. And when there isn't one to be found, she writes it.

Joanna’s writing has won the Key West Council for the Arts Writers Grant, has been published in Decimos (We Say), and short listed in WOW's flash fiction contest. She serves as treasurer for the Key West Writers Guild, as well as a volunteer for the Key West Literary Seminar. She is a member of the Author’s Guild and the Historical Novel Society and fishes with her husband on weekends, where she has mastered the art of telling fishtails.