About
Joanna Lilley's fifth book and third poetry collection, Endlings, is all about extinction and was published by Turnstone Press in 2020. She's 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. She has diplomas in journalism and plain language editing and has worked in public sector communications for well over 20 years. Joanna is on the board of the Yukon Words society and is the Yukon representative for the Federation of British Columbia Writers. Born in the south of England, Joanna lived in Wales and Scotland before moving to Canada. She now lives in Whitehorse, Yukon, where she's grateful to reside on the Traditional Territories of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and the Ta'an Kwäch'än Council.
Read Joanna's poems
- Beauty, Turnstone Press's YouTube channel
- (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's poems
- 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
Hear Joanna read from Worry Stones
What Joanna's working on now
Joanna is currently working on a novel and a poetry manuscript and also a family project with her niece Leonora Lilley.