Joanna Pocock

Joanna Pocock’s writing has most notably appeared in Dark Mountain, Dazed & Confused, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, New Statesman, Orion Magazine, The Spectator, The Times Literary Supplement and 3:AM. In 2018 she won the Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize for her book-length work of non-fiction Surrender about the American West, which was published in May 2019 by Fitzcarraldo. House of Anansi published it in Canada and the US in 2020 and a French translation has just come out by Mémoire d’encrier. A Spanish edition is forthcoming this year from Errata Naturae. Most recently, Joanna was awarded the 2021 Arts Foundation Fellowship in Environmental Writing. She teaches Creative Writing at the University of the Arts.