Johanna Stoberock

Johanna Stoberock is the American author of the novels Pigs and City of Ghosts. Her short stories and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Better: Culture & Lit, Volume One Brooklyn, The Chicago Review of Books, and others.

Joanna is the winner of the 2019 Artist Trust/Gar LaSalle Storyteller Award. Also, Her honors include the James W. Hall Prize for Fiction (1998).

Johanna Stoberock has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing and Fiction from the University of Washington and a B.A. in English Literature and Religious Studies from Wesleyan University. Now she teaches Rhetoric, Writing, and Public Discourse at Whitman College.

In addition to her work as a writer and teacher, Stoberock has extensive experience in both magazine and book publishing.

She has worked as a book editor for William Morrow, Scribner, and Grove Atlantic, and as a research editor at numerous magazines including Men's Journal and Rolling Stone.

Her current project is The Dark Forest—set in a landscape that resembles the forests of Ukraine, the novel draws on the Grimm’s
fairytale, Jorinda, and Joringel, to explore a world poisoned by the toxic waste of nuclear production.

She lives in Walla Walla, Washington, with her husband and two children.