Joanna Ruocco

Joanna Ruocco
Nationality	American
Education	Brown University (MFA) University of Denver (PhD)

Joanna Ruocco is an American author and was a co-editor of the fiction journal Birkensnake and serves as the Chair of the Editorial Board of Fiction Collective Two. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

In 2011, Ruocco was the winner of the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize for Another Governess / The Least Blacksmith. ^[4] In 2013, she received the Pushcart Prize for her story "If the Man Took". Ruocco received her MFA at Brown, and a Ph.D. in creative writing from the University of Denver. She also serves as professor in creative writing at Wake Forest University. ^{[5] [6]}

Ruocco publishes romance novels as Joanna Lowell, and has also written under the pseudonyms Toni Jones and, with Radhika Singh, Alessandra Shahbaz. ^{[7] [8]}

Works

As Joanna Ruocco

• The Mothering Coven (Ellipsis Press, 2009)
• The Baker's Daughter (Mud Licious Press, 2009)
• Man's Companions (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2010)
• A Compendium of Domestic Incidents (Noemi Press, 2011)
• Another Governess / The Least Blacksmith (FC2, 2012)
• Dan (Dorothy, 2014)
• The Boghole & the Beldame (The Lune, no. 12, 2016)
• Field Glass, with Joanna Howard (Sidebrow Press, 2017)
• The Whitmire Case (Astrophil Press, 2017)
• The Week (The Elephants, 2017)

As Alessandra Shahbaz

• Ghazal in the Moonlight (Random House India, 2009)
• Midnight Flame (Red Sage, 2012)

As Toni Jones

• No Secrets in Spandex (Simon & Schuster, 2012)

As Joanna Lowell

• Dark Season (Simon & Schuster, 2016)
• The Duke Undone (Berkley Books, 2020)
• The Runaway Duchess (Berkley Books, 2021)
• Artfully Yours (Berkley Books, 2023)
• A Shore Thing (Berkley Books, 2024)
• A Rare Find (Berkley Books, 2025)

References

1. "BOMB Magazine | Joanna Ruocco". BOMB Magazine. Retrieved 2025-02-18.
2. "Misplaced Logic: An Interview with Joanna Ruocco". The Paris Review. 2017-05-09. Retrieved 2025-02-19.
3. "Fiction Collective Two" . Retrieved 2025-07-19.
4. "Prizes | FC2" . Retrieved 2025-02-18.
5. ""To Escape to Something Beyond the World": Matt Weinkam Interviews Joanna Ruocco". Heavy Feather Review. 2015-01-27. Retrieved 2025-02-18.
6. "Joanna Ruocco | Department of English | Wake Forest University" . Retrieved 2025-02-18.
7. "March 14, 2018 Vol. 88 Issue 6 by MCLA Beacon - Issuu". issuu.com. 2019-03-13. Retrieved 2025-02-18.
8. "Radhika Singh: Mughal Romances". 15 June 2024. Retrieved 2025-07-18.

External links

• Wake Forest English faculty bios
• Brown University Writers Online for Joanna Ruocco
• Dorothy title page for Dan