Joanna Roye writes literary horror and weird fiction. Her work has appeared in Weird Fiction Quarterly and various anthologies including 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 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 her twenty-year-old cat Sellie. They love opossums and bees.