Interviews
“I’m continually surprised by how much and how little has changed since the 1880s”
“I wanted the book to engage with historical realities while also emphasizing joy”
“Send Me an Angel”
“I love the optimism of romance, and that romance novels chart paths to joy”
“My goal is to transport readers into an atmospherically Victorian world of romance and adventure”
“I eat preposterous amounts of grapes”
“I think storytelling is as essential as dreaming. Stories enlarge our realities”
“Books in general changed my life. That portal feeling”
“Mutton shunter”
Books
About Joanna
Joanna Lowell lives among the fig trees in North Carolina, where she teaches in the English department at Wake Forest University. When she’s not writing historical romance, she writes other things as Joanna Ruocco. Those books include Dan, Another Governess / The Least Blacksmith, The Week, and Field Glass, co-authored with Joanna Howard.
She is represented by the wonderful Tara Gelsomino.
(Photo by Mir Yarfitz)