The English Department's main office is in Muenzinger D110.
Creative Writer Reading Series: Joanna Ruocco
On May 3rd, 2018, Joanna Ruocco reading from her body of work as part of the Creative Writing Reading Series.
Joanna Ruocco is an assistant professor of Creative Writing in the English Department at Wake Forest University. She earned an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University and a PhD in Fiction from the University of Denver. She has published several books, including Another Governess / The Least Blacksmith: A Diptych, which won the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize (judged by Ben Marcus), and most recently, Dan (Dorothy, a publishing project). Ruocco also works pseudonymously as Alessandra Shahbaz (Ghazal in the Moonlight, Midnight Flame) and Toni Jones (No Secrets in Spandex). Her stories have appeared in numerous journals including NOON, Conjunctions, Black Warrior Review, Caketrain, Bidoun, Quarterly West, Western Humanities Review, The Fanzine, Marginalia, 3 AM Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, and Harp & Altar.