Joanna Ruocco


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.
In 2011, Ruocco was the winner of the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize for Another Governess / The Least Blacksmith. 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.
Ruocco publishes romance novels as Joanna Lowell, and has also written under the pseudonyms Toni Jones and, with Radhika Singh, Alessandra Shahbaz.

Works

As Joanna Ruocco

The Mothering Coven The Baker's Daughter Man's Companions A Compendium of Domestic Incidents Another Governess / The Least Blacksmith Dan The Boghole & the Beldame Field Glass, with Joanna Howard The Whitmire Case
  • ''The Week''

As Alessandra Shahbaz

Ghazal in the Moonlight
  • ''Midnight Flame''

As Toni Jones

  • ''No Secrets in Spandex''

As Joanna Lowell

Dark Season The Duke Undone The Runaway Duchess Artfully Yours A Shore Thing
  • ''A Rare Find''