| Joan Thomas | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | novelist |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Genres | fiction |
| Notable work(s) | Reading by Lightning, Curiosity |
Joan Thomas is a Canadian novelist and short story writer, whose debut novel Reading By Lightning won the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (Canada/Caribbean) as well as the Amazon.ca First Book Award.[1] Her second novel, Curiosity was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, and the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award.
Thomas, based in Winnipeg,[2] previously worked as a freelance journalist and book reviewer for The Globe and Mail, the Winnipeg Free Press and Prairie Fire, and as a book editor for Turnstone Press. She won a National Magazine Award in 1996 for her journalism.