Joanne Easley

Joanne Kukanza Easley’s award-winning debut novel, Sweet Jane, was released in March 2020. The novel was named the winner in adult fiction at the Texas Author Project and shortlisted for the Sarton Award and Eric Hoffer Award, among others. A retired registered nurse with experience in both the cold, clinical operating room and the emotionally fraught world of psychiatric hospitals, she lives and writes on a small ranch in the Texas Hill Country. Just One Look is her second published novel. Her prize-winning short fiction and poetry have appeared in anthologies. Joanne writes fiction about complicated, twentieth-century women who eventually figure it out. Her novels are set in the sixties and seventies. While her characters’ paths are not easy, they rise to face life’s challenges. Her novel-in-progress, I’ll Be Seeing You, features characters from Sweet Jane.