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Joanna Pocock

Black and white photo of Joanna Pocock. (photo credit: Dinah Wood)

Joanna Pocock is the 2018 winner of the Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize for Surrender, her book-length memoir and meditation on the American West. The book has been published in the UK, US and Canada, and 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 writing and photo essays have been published in a variety of outlets, most notably The Los Angeles Times, the Nation, Orion, the New Statesman, the Spectator, The Times Literary Supplement, Granta, Dazed & Confused and Tank magazine. Joanna’s next book, Greyhound, is forthcoming with Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2024. She teaches both fiction and non-fiction writing at the University of the Arts, London.