Joanne Anderton is an Australian author of speculative fiction, creative non-fiction, and children’s books.

Her speculative fiction includes the novels in the Veiled Worlds series – Debris, Suited and Guardian – and the short story collections The Art of Broken Things, Inanimates: Tales of Everyday Fear, and The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories.

Her most recent work is Pixerina, a haunted house novella set in the Australian suburbs, about what society demands of women and how much we’re willing to sacrifice to escape those expectations. It’s a story of grief, of wrenching back control when your life has been derailed, and the obsessive need to create art. Coming in 2026 from Bad Hand Books, and available to preorder here!

She has won multiple awards for her speculative fiction, including the Australian Shadows Award, Ditmar and Aurealis Awards. Her short fiction has been reprinted in several Year’s Best anthologies, and she’s received international review coverage in The New York Journal of Books, The Guardian, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly.

Her children’s picture book The Flying Optometrist, was published by the National Library of Australia and was a CBCA notable book. Her non-fiction has been published in Speculative Insight, Island Magazine, Meanjin and The Japan News.

Joanne has a Masters of Arts in Creative Writing, worked for many years in book publishing, marketing and distribution, and until recently was teaching English in rural Japan. She has just completed a PhD in Creative Writing at The University of Queensland, writing speculative fiction memoir about her time living and working in Japan.

She can be contacted by email: anderton.joanne(at)gmail.com

Instagram: @joanneanderton

Facebook: @https://www.facebook.com/joanne.anderton.16

Or Bluesky: @joanneanderton