Joelle Kidd is a writer, award-winning journalist and editor living in a book-filled basement in Toronto, Ontario. A lover of magazines, Joelle has worked as staff writer and editor for several local and national publications. She has covered a broad range of topics in her writing: food, culture, religion and spirituality, the arts, and more. Her first book, Jesusland: Stories from the Upside Down World of Christian Pop Culture was published by ECW Press in 2025.

Her short fiction and essays have appeared in outlets including The Walrus, LitHub, Catapult, PRISM International, Prairie Fire, and This Magazine. Through her fiction writing, she explores themes of time, empathy, generational knowledge, women’s labour, and family. She is currently working on her first novel.

Joelle holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph and has additional education in publishing and editing. She has worked as a freelance proofreader for Tin House books and is a prose editor for Plenitude magazine. An experienced editor, she is able to gently and thoughtfully guide projects through the editing process while still catching every stray dangling modifier. If you are interested in editing services, you can read more here.