I’m a writer, the deputy editor of the Yale Review and the author of A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again, which was a finalist for the 2023 National Award for Arts Writing. I’ve written for the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, the Nation, the New Republic, Bookforum, Granta, the Paris Review online, the Financial Times, the Guardian, the Observer and the Sunday Times. I was a finalist for the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing in 2024.

After working at the London Review of Books for fifteen years, I was a senior editor at Harper’s Magazine from 2021 to 2024.

I was a recipient of a grant from the Robert B. Silvers Foundation in 2020, and part of the inaugural cohort at the Willa Cather Writers’ Residency in Red Cloud, Nebraska in 2023. My first book, All Day Long: A Portrait of Britain at Work, came out in 2015 with Serpent’s Tail in the UK. I live in New York and New Haven, Connecticut.

In 2017, I co-founded Silver Press to publish feminist writers, including Audre Lorde, Leonora Carrington, Nell Dunn, Chantal Akerman and M. NourbeSe Philip.

You can email me at joanna.biggs@gmail.com, follow me on Twitter @JoannaBiggs or on Instagram @joanouvelle