Born in London, Joanna Biggs trained at the London Review of Books and has edited for Harper’s Magazine in New York and The Yale Review in New Haven, Connecticut. Her criticism has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books, and the New Yorker, among other publications, and she was a finalist for the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing in 2024. She is the author of two books of non-fiction, one of which was a finalist for the 2023 US National Award for Arts Writing. She was elected member of the US National Book Critics’ Circle Board in 2026. She lives in New York City.