Joanna Roye writes literary horror and weird fiction. Her work regularly appears in Weird Fiction Quarterly as well as various anthologies. Examples include: Not All Monsters: A Strangehouse Anthology by Women of Horror (2020)- nominated for a Bram Stoker award, and Black Candies: Gross and Unlikeable (2016) – nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Authors.

She holds a MA in Analytic Philosophy from Virginia Tech. She has previously worked as a public librarian. 

Joanna lives in the hills south of Blacksburg, Virginia with her husband, two kids, her dog Weldon, and two elderly cats. She loves opossums and bees.