Joanna Wiebe

Joanna Wiebe is from Vancouver Island, Canada. She studied creative writing at the University of Alberta, during which time she twice won the James Patrick Folinsbee prize in creative writing, won the Godfrey Prize and was published in the literary journal Fait Accomplit. She lived for a year on the remote northern island of Hokkaido, Japan, which is the inspiration for the verdant Wormwood Island of the V Trilogy.