The Blueberry Group
Joanne Drew
Joanne Drew received her Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of Puget
Sound and is currently a candidate for the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from UM-St.
Louis. She has 15 years experience in professional writing and editing including positions as
Features Editor at Washington Journal, a regional legal newspaper; Managing Editor at River
Styx Literary Magazine, a St. Louis-based journal of poetry and fiction, and as Editorial
Consultant for Quantum Loyalty Marketing. She currently teaches creative writing at UM St.
Louis Continuing Education, Springboard to Learning, and Writers In The Schools (W.I.T.S).
Her story Dirty River was published in Cross Currents Literary Review and she is currently
working on her first novel.