Joanna Ruocco is the author of Another Governess/The Least Blacksmith-A Diptych (FC2, 2012). A Compendium of Domestic Incidents (Noemi Press, 2011), Man’s Companions (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2010), and the The Mothering Coven (Ellipsis Press, 2009). A recipient of the Pushcart Prize in 2013 and winner of the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize, Ruocco is also a graduate of the MFA program in Literary Arts at Brown, and a recent graduate of the Ph.D. program in creative writing at University of Denver. She co-edits Birkensnake, a fiction journal, with Brian Conn.