Joanne Limburg

Joanne Limburg was born and grew up in London and now lives in Cambridge. She has published two collections of poetry with Bloodaxe Books: Feminismo, shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and Paraphernalia, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. A collection for children Bookside Down was shortlisted for the CLPE Poetry Prize. Her latest poetry collection is The Autistic Alice, also published by Bloodaxe. Her non- poetry book The Woman Who Thought Too Much, a memoir about OCD, anxiety and poetry is published by Atlantic Books and her debut novel A Want of Kindness was published in July 2015. A second memoir Small Pieces: A Book of Lamentations appeared in July 2017 and this year Letters to My Weird Sisters: on Autism and Feminism was published by Atlantic Books. Joanne completed a PhD in Creative Writing at Kingston University and now lectures at De Montfort University in Leicester.