Joanna Campbell‘s work appears in Spilling Ink: Volume 1. She is a fifty-year-old wife and mother of three daughters. She cannot be prised away from her old cottage in the Cotswolds, which includes three cats and two ponies.
She has always wanted to play the piano and began to take lessons six years ago. She faces her Grade Five examination next.
She always has her head in a book. She was excused outside-playtime at infant school so that she could read instead.
She began to write seriously four years ago and has had short stories and poetry published in several magazines and anthologies. She was shortlisted in the Fish, Bristol and Bridport Short Story Prizes in 2010.
She is a graduate of German from Exeter University Before starting a family, she worked in both retail management and financial services. But was hopelessly bad at her jobs. Eventually, she made use of her German by teaching to adult beginners.
She loves solitude and doesn’t notice the time when she is writing. Hence her children eat at odd times. Provided she has remembered to do the shopping.
Her husband of twenty-six years is a company director and she is meant to be his secretary. He hopes that one day, she will actually do her job. And remember to put the coffee in his cup as well as the hot water.
Visit Joanna’s blog at: http://brightwriter60.blogspot.com/.
