About Jo Iozzi

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I’m a writer and teach adults creative writing. I was born in east London to an English teacher and Italian shoe designer. After having a brilliant time at Leyton Sixth Form College, I studied Drama & English at Bristol University. Afterwards I worked variously as a teacher in Milan, in children’s publishing and in later in tabloid journalism, writing TV features.

Whilst living in San Francisco for a few years, I developed a love for the short story form and enrolled on the Creative Writing MA back at Goldsmiths in London where I won the Pat Kavanagh Prize for my fiction. I have published short stories in numerous places - check out my fiction on the link above. (Themes I return to are motherhood, sexuality, relationships, domesticity and nature in crisis.) I’m completing a practice-based writing PhD at Goldsmiths where I also teach courses on short fiction. My first novel, House with Pool, a simmering narrative of maternal disintegration, is on submission. I’m currently working on a memoir.

I also paint - check out my portraits/commissions on my paintings page.