Jo Case is a writer and editor based in Adelaide, Australia. She was born in South Australia in 1975.
Career
Case has served as senior writer and editor at the Wheeler Centre, an institution dedicated to the discussion and practice of writing and ideas, Program Manager of Melbourne Writers Festival (2015 and 2016), and as Books Editor for The Big Issue (Australia).[1]
Case's first book, Boomer and Me: A memoir of motherhood, and Asperger’s was published by Hardie Grant in Australia in April 2013, and in the United Kingdom in May 2013. She is a founding member of the editorial team of Kill Your Darlings, an Australian literary journal. Case writes about the process of writing a memoir on her blog.[2]
Case's short story "Hell is Other Parents," originally published in The Sleepers Almanac, was selected for The Best Australian Stories 2009, edited by Delia Falconer.
Bibliography
Memoirs
Case, Jo (2013). Boomer & me : a memoir of motherhood and Asperger's. Richmond, Vic.: Hardie Grant Books.
Short fiction
Title
Year
First published
Reprinted/collected
Notes
Hell is other parents
2009
The Sleepers Almanac 5
Falconer, Delia (ed.). The Best Australian Stories 2009. Black Inc.
Something Wild
2015
The Big Issue, August 2015
Lohrey, Amanda (ed.). The Best Australian Stories 2015. Black Inc.
