Joanne Elliott
Joanne Elliott was born in New York in 1935 and has lived and worked in Japan, Hong Kong, UK and Ireland. She has published short stories in Woman’s Realm and Galway Magazine, two books on childhood diabetes, wrote and presented radio programmes for RTE (Irish National Radio) and edited and produced the local newspaper, The Inishbofin Inquirer, for seven years. In 1977, she founded Kellett School, now the British International School in Hong Kong. She lives in Belfast and the island of Inishbofin off the West Coast of Ireland.