Joanna is from the UK and now lives in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, where she’s currently helping to set up a new Yukon Words society. She is grateful to the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and the Ta’an Kwäch’än Council on whose Traditional Territories she resides. 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 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 Lilley’s fifth book and third poetry collection, Endlings, was published by Turnstone Press in March 2020.