Joanna Pocock

Joanna Pocock is the 2018 winner of the Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize for Surrender, her book-length memoir and meditation on the American West. Surrender was published in the UK, US, Canada and Europe, and has been translated into French and Spanish. She is also the 2021 recipient of the Arts Foundation Prize in Environmental Writing and was shortlisted for the Nature Chronicles Prize in Nature Writing and the Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award in 2022. Her second book, Greyhound, was published by Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) and Soft Skull (US) and was a finalist in the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism and shortlisted for the Sherborne Travel Writing Prize. Her writing and photo essays have been published most notably in The Los Angeles Times, the Nation, Guardian US, the New Statesman, the Spectator, The Times Literary Supplement, 3:AM, and Granta. She teaches both fiction and non-fiction writing at the University of the Arts, London.