Jo Case

Jo Case is an Adelaide-based writer, editor and bookseller. Her first book, Boomer and Me: A memoir of motherhood, and Asperger's (2013) was shortlisted for the inaugural Russell Prize for Humour Writing. Her personal essays have been published in the anthologies Mothermorphosis (MUP, 2015) and Rebellious Daughters (Ventura Press, 2016). She is a former deputy editor of Australian Book Review, books editor of the Big Issue and associate editor of Kill Your Darlings. She reviews regularly for the Age/Sydney Morning Herald and has reviewed for the Australian and the Monthly. She is a former program manager of Melbourne Writers Festival and was a founding board member of the Stella Prize and co-founder of Feminist Writers Festival. These days, she works at publisher Wakefield Press and at Imprints.