About
Joanna Lilley's fifth book and third poetry collection, Endlings, was published by Turnstone Press in 2020 and won the Fred Kerner Book Award. Joanna is also the author of a novel, Worry Stones (Ronsdale Press), which was longlisted for the Caledonia Novel Award, and a short story collection, The Birthday Books (Hagios Press). Joanna's other poetry collections are If There Were Roads (Turnstone Press), and The Fleece Era (Brick Books) which was nominated for the Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry. Joanna has an MLitt degree in creative writing from the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde and is a Humber School for Writers graduate. Born in the south of England, Joanna lived in Wales and Scotland before moving to Canada and has given reading and workshops as far afield as Alaska and Iceland. She now lives in Whitehorse, Yukon, where she's on the board of Yukon Words and is very grateful to reside on the Traditional Territories of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and the Ta'an Kwäch'än Council.
Read poems by Joanna
- Beauty, Turnstone Poetry
- (sea) (lake) (river), The Scales Project
- Tomography and other poems, Geographies, Ice Floe Press
- Waiting room, Chichester Poetry online open mic
- Tinto, Poetry Map of Scotland, a StAnza Poetry Festival project
- Waterlogged, The Walrus
Listen to Joanna read her work
- My Mother Made Sure, Aryamati Poetry Prize runner-up, UK
- Nothing Can Be Done, Turnstone Poetry
- Out of Kilter, Bimblebox Art Project, Australia
- Pangea, One Minute Poem Series, Poets Corner, Vancouver
- I Hold Up My Hands, 49th Shelf Launchpad
- Specimen, Bakings literary journal, Scotland
- Necrofauna, Off Course, Garden Lion, Periodicities, Ontario
- Spring Mini Reading Series, Poetry London, Ontario
- Worry Stones, Ronsdale Press YouTube channel
What Joanna's working on now
Joanna is currently working on a novel and a poetry manuscript and a family project with her niece Leonora Lilley.