Dr Joanne Limburg

Biography

I am a Teaching Associate and work as member of University of Cambridge Professional and Continuing Education Creative Writing teaching team. My main areas of interest are poetry and creative non-fiction and I run the Creative Non-Fiction module on our MSt in Creative Writing. I also teach on our undergraduate courses.

Since 2000, I have had a varied writing career, publishing poetry collections, creative non-fiction books and one historical novel. As a teacher, I want to create the conditions in which fellow writers can develop their practice and grow in confidence, whatever their chosen genre.

I received my PhD in Creative Writing from Kingston University in 2017. While at Cambridge, I gained my HEA Fellowship. I am also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Research topics

Creative non-fiction and poetry interest me for their formal possibilities, and for the ways in which these allow the writer to approach subjects in new ways. At the moment, I am writing a book of poems for Bloodaxe Books, which is experimental in its formal approach. My most recent non-fiction book, Letters to my Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism, uses the epistolary form to explore my experience as a late-diagnosed autistic woman, and the lives of women from history who, in their own times, were regarded as strange. I make use of feminist and critical disability theory to enable me to do this. As both a writer and teacher, I am passionate about inclusion, particularly as it relates to disabled people. I am also interested in the creative process, and the phenomenology of writing practice.

Publications

Other

Thought Pattern, Pattern Thought - writer and presenter of this programme on Radio 4, 2020

Books

Letters to my Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism, 2021

Electronic articles

Five poems from the sequence "Alas" in Blackbox Manifold 32 https://blackboxmanifold.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/issues/issue-32/joannelimburgbm32, 2024
"Colours: an Unmasked Essay on Neurophototherapy' in Boue, Sonia, Neurophototherapy: Playfully Unmasking with Photography and Collage, pp 94-105, 2023

Magazine articles

Am I Disabled? - Aeon Magazine https://aeon.co/essays/what-does-it-mean-to-consider-yourself-a-disabled-person, 2020