Joanna Lee
Joanna Lee joined Atlantic Books as commissioning editor in 2022, where she has acquired titles including Jean-Baptiste Andrea’s Prix Goncourt-winning Watching Over Her, new work by Granta, Best of Young British Novelist Camilla Grudova and PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize finalist Clare Beams, among several others. Previously, she worked at Curtis Brown, where she agented titles including Fran Lebowitz's Sunday Times-bestselling, The Fran Lebowitz Reader and Holly Pester’s The Lodgers, and worked alongside Karolina Sutton on her list of authors including Margaret Atwood and Hanya Yanagihara. She began her career at Faber Books.
She is a Ledbury Emerging Poetry Critic, with pieces in the Guardian, The White Review and LA Review of Books, and co-founder of the East and South-East Asian (ESEA) Publishing Network and ESEA Lit Fest, the first ESEA literary festival in the UK, in partnership with Foyles.
Joanna Lee
Joanna Lee joined Atlantic Books as commissioning editor in 2022, where she has acquired titles including Jean-Baptiste Andrea’s Prix Goncourt-winning Watching Over Her, new work by Granta, Best of Young British Novelist Camilla Grudova and PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize finalist Clare Beams, among several others. Previously, she worked at Curtis Brown, where she agented titles including Fran Lebowitz's Sunday Times-bestselling, The Fran Lebowitz Reader and Holly Pester’s The Lodgers, and worked alongside Karolina Sutton on her list of authors including Margaret Atwood and Hanya Yanagihara. She began her career at Faber Books.
She is a Ledbury Emerging Poetry Critic, with pieces in the Guardian, The White Review and LA Review of Books, and co-founder of the East and South-East Asian (ESEA) Publishing Network and ESEA Lit Fest, the first ESEA literary festival in the UK, in partnership with Foyles.
