Johanna Bell

Until recently, Johanna lived in Garramilla (Darwin) where she founded a storytelling studio to elevate new voices from regional Australia. She now lives in Nipaluna (Hobart) where she writes fiction, poetry and children’s books. Johanna’s work is widely published and she has won a string of awards, including a Tasmanian Literary Award for her recent novel Department of the Vanishing. She is the 2026 recipient of the Copyright Agency–UTS Writer-in-residence and her next novel explores memory loss.