Joanna Lilley's fourth poetry collection, Three Pieces of Sea, is forthcoming from Turnstone Press in 2026. Her third poetry collection, Endlings, won the Fred Kerner Book Award, and Joanna is also the author of a novel, Worry Stones (Ronsdale Press), which was longlisted for the Caledonia Novel Award. Her short story collection is The Birthday Books (Hagios Press) and her 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 loves sharing the joy of words has taken part in events as far afield as Alaska and Iceland. As well as an MLitt degree in creative writing from the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde, she has a postgraduate certificate in creative writing from the Humber School for Writers and diplomas in journalism and plain language editing. Joanna co-founded Yukon Words and is a recipient of the Borealis Prize, the Commissioner of Yukon Award for Literary Contribution. Born in the south of England, Joanna lived in Wales and Scotland before moving to Whitehorse, Yukon, in Canada where she's grateful to reside on the Traditional Territories of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and the Ta'an Kwäch'än Council.
