joann dionne
nadian writer, editor, teacher and traveller.
About Me
Hi! I’m JoAnn, a nadian travel writer living in Guanajuato, Mexico.
Little Emperors
Little Emperors is a memoir of my time teaching English in a Chinese elementary school. It was short-listed for the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature and named a finalist for the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize.
A funny, observant chronicle of a year in a classroom, JoAnn Dionne’s memoir is quietly monumental in its insights into all those real things in Chinese lives.
Charles ForanImmediacy of language and lightness of tone make the memoir readable, vivid, and fun…
Yvonne Blomer…Dionne conveys the excitement and culture shock of a BC expatriate very well.
Crawford KillianMagic and New Magic
For many years, I worked as a writer and editor for the Hong Kong office of Oxford University Press. The project I was most proud of was Magic, a textbook series for Hong Kong primary schools.
The first edition was published in 2005. A second edition, New Magic, me out in 2008. An International Edition of New Magic was released in mainland China in 2016.
My Travel Photos
Travel photos from around the world, and inspiration for my work.
