About me
Joan Wickersham’s new book is No Ship Sets Out To Be A Shipwreck. Her memoir The Suicide Index was a National Book Award Finalist and appeared on “best books of the year” lists including The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, The Week, Salon, and The Washington Post. Her most recent book of fiction, The News from Spain, was named one of the year’s best picks by National Public Radio, Kirkus Reviews, and The San Francisco Chronicle. Her work has been published in many magazines and in Best American Short Stories and Best American Nonrequired Reading.
For the past fifteen years, Joan has been a regular op-ed columnist for The Boston Globe. Her essays have been featured on NPR and in The International Herald Tribune. She has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Scandinavian Foundation, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, MacDowell, and Yaddo. Joan graduated from Yale with a degree in art history. She has taught fiction and memoir writing at Harvard, Emerson, UMass Boston, and the Bennington Writing Seminars.