Joanna Walsh talked to Sam Ruddock in December during the hustle and bustle of the Worlds Literature Festival about cyber feminism, post-humanism and exploring digital narratives.
Joanna is the author of Hotel, Vertigo, Grow a Pair and Fractals. She’s been published in Granta, multiple short fiction anthologies, The Stinging Fly, The Dublin Review and others, is a regular reviewer over at The New Statesman and The Guardian and is the editor of 3AM Magazine and Catapult. She’s judged the Goldsmiths Prize and is currently studying a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of East Anglia.
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