Joy Rhoades
About the author

Joy Rhoades

Joy Rhoades was born in Roma in western Queensland, with an early memory of flat country and a broad sky. Growing up, she loved two things best: reading and the bush, whether playing in creek beds and paddocks, or climbing a tree to sit with a book. Her family would visit her grandmother, a fifth generation grazier and a gentle teller of stories of her life on her family’s sheep farm.At 13, Joy left Roma for Brisbane, first for school and then to study law at university. After graduating, she worked all over: first Sydney, then London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo and New York. It was in New York that she completed a Masters in Creative Writing at the New School University, and wrote much of The Woolgrower's Companion, a novel inspired in part by snippets of her grandmother’s life and times.She now lives in London with her husband and their two young children, but she misses the Australian sky.

Books by Joy Rhoades

Joy Rhoades Articles

Podcast: Joy Rhoades on Living Overseas While Setting her Novels in Australia

Podcast

16 December 2019

Podcast: Joy Rhoades on Living Overseas While Setting her Novels in Australia

    Joy Rhoades, Author of The Burnt Country on being Drawn to Stories about the Bush, Country and Community

    News

    14 August 2019

    Joy Rhoades, Author of The Burnt Country on being Drawn to Stories about the Bush, Country and Community

      An Australian Historical Masterpiece: Read an Extract of The Burnt Country by Joy Rhoades

      News

      7 August 2019

      An Australian Historical Masterpiece: Read an Extract of The Burnt Country by Joy Rhoades

        I’m Fascinated by Character: Q&A with Joy Rhoades, Author of The Burnt Country

        News

        7 August 2019

        I’m Fascinated by Character: Q&A with Joy Rhoades, Author of The Burnt Country

          Captivating, Brilliant and Wholly Believable: Review of The Burnt Country by Joy Rhoades

          News

          6 August 2019

          Captivating, Brilliant and Wholly Believable: Review of The Burnt Country by Joy Rhoades