Joanne Limburg was born in 1970 in London. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 1998 and published her first collection, Femenismo, with Bloodaxe in 2000. Since then, there have been two further collections: Paraphernalia (2007), which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and The Autistic Alice (2017), to be followed in 2027 by Alas.
Her other work includes the non-fiction books The Woman Who Thought Too Much, Small Pieces and Letters to My Weird Sisters, as well as the novel A Want of Kindness, all of which have been published by Atlantic Books. She has also produced a collection of poetry for children, Bookside Down, with Salt Publishing.
Joanne Limburg received her PhD in Creative Writing from Kingston University, London in 2017. She now teaches at the University of Cambridge Centre for Professional and Continuing Education. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
