Joanna Pearson is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and psychiatrist. She published a book of short stories, Every Human Love, in 2019 and a mystery-thriller novel, Bright and Tender Dark, in 2024. Pearson is a recipient of the Donald Justice Poetry Prize and the Drue Heinz Literature Prize.
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| Alma mater | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars (MFA) Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (MD) |
| Period | Contemporary |
| Genres | Mystery fiction Thriller |
| Children | 2 |
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Early life and education
editPearson grew up in Cleveland County, North Carolina.[1] She was presented to society at the North Carolina Debutante Ball in Raleigh in 1999.[1]
Pearson graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2002.[2] She obtained a master of fine arts degree in poetry from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and a medical degree from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.[3][4]
Career
editHer short stories have appeared in The Alaska Quarterly Review, storySouth, Blackbird, Colorado Review, Mississippi Review, Shenandoah, and Joyland.[3][1][5] In 2012, she won the Donald Justice Poetry Prize. Her short story Changeling was honored as a distinguished story in The Best American Short Stories in 2015.[3] In May 2019, she published a collection of short stories as a book, titled Every Human Love.[3] In 2021, she was awarded the Drue Heinz Literature Prize.[6][7] She was nominated for the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and a Virginia Literary Award.[8] She was the only North Carolinian in South Arts' inaugural class of State Fellows for Literary Arts.[9]
Her debut novel, Bright and Tender Dark, was published by Bloomsbury Press in 2024.[8] The novel is a mystery-thriller work.[10][11]
Pearson also works as a psychiatrist.[12]
Personal life
editPearson lives in Carrboro, North Carolina with her husband and two children.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b c Pearson, Joanna. "Confession: I Was a Reluctant Debutante". storySouth. Retrieved July 20, 2024.
- ^ "Joanna Pearson". UNC English & Comparative Literature.
- ^ a b c d "Joanna Pearson". University of Chicago Press.
- ^ a b Edwards, Sarah (June 26, 2024). "A profile of Carrboro author Joanna Pearson". INDY Week.
- ^ "Joanna Pearson | Kenyon Review Author". The Kenyon Review.
- ^ "Request Rejected". www.utimes.pitt.edu.
- ^ Duffus, Matthew (June 4, 2024). ""An Entirely New Kind of Challenge": A Conversation with Joanna Pearson".
- ^ a b "Bright and Tender Dark with Joanna Pearson".
- ^ Keck, Aaron (June 5, 2024). "On Air Today: Joanna Pearson, 'Bright and Tender Dark'".
- ^ Dumpleton, Elise (June 4, 2024). "Q&A: Joanna Pearson, Author of 'Bright and Tender Dark'".
- ^ Commission, Orange County Arts (January 19, 2024). "Joanna Pearson's Debut Novel 'Bright and Tender Dark' Is a Thrilling Literary Mystery".
- ^ "Writers' Day Jobs: Joanna Pearson - The Cincinnati Review". May 25, 2021.