Joelle teaches writing at Boston University, Northeastern University, and the Boston Collegiate Charter School. Since moving to Boston, she has also taught writing and public speaking/communications at Emerson College, Lesley University, and Quincy College.

In 2006, she received her Masters of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of British Columbia. Her thesis was in fiction, though she also took courses in non-fiction, poetry, screenwriting, and writing and editing for radio. In 2000, she received her Bachelor of Arts in English, with a subconcentration in creative writing, from the University of Michigan.

Joelle currently maintains a blog about the relationship between science and science fiction.

Her work has appeared in Carousel, Briarpatch, the Means, the Allegheny Review, Sycamore Review, the New York Inquirer and others. A chapbook of her poetry was published by the University of Arkansas Press and in 2008 she collaborated with an artist on an ekphrastic publication of painting and poetry.

Joelle is the recipient of the Somerville Arts Council 2012 fellowship grant, the CBC Television Jim Burt Prize in Creative Writing, the Hopwood Award for Poetry, the Virginia Voss Writing Award, and the Wesleyan Writers Conference Scholarship.

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