Joan F. Smith is an author, a dance instructor, and a former associate dean of creative writing. She lives and writes in Massachusetts, where she was the 2021 Writer-in-Residence at the Milton Public Library. Joan received her MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College. When she's not writing, she's either wrangling her kids, embarking on a new hobby she will quickly abandon, or co-hosting The Darling Killers Podcast.

Joan is represented by Kerry D'Agostino at Curtis Brown, Ltd.