Ruocco, Joanna: - Joanna Ruocco is the author of several books, including Another Governess / The Least Blacksmith: A Diptych, which won the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize, and Dan (Dorothy, a publishing project). Ruocco also works pseudonymously as Joanna Lowell, the author of numerous romance novels. She is an associate professor of Creative Writing in the English Department at Wake Forest University.