Hello! I'm Joanna, a fascinated apprentice to the Greatest Storyteller of all.
That sums me up nicely in a sentence, but you’ll also find me saying that I’m a sojourning Filipina, a walking paradox, and an author of stories with grit, grace, and wonder. If you’d like to discover what I mean by all that, keep reading!

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The One Who Wrote Away is a contemporary Christian romance about a parkour-proficient superhero author out on a mission to avoid a virtuous bookworm who proves to be her kryptonite. Part coming-of-age story, part love story, this is the story of Caleb and Nova, who walked through life as strangers, until they discovered a Love that runs deeper, and ended up saving each other.

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[An Island of Wolves] Join my ARC Team!
Applications are open to receive an Advanced Readers Copy (ARC) of An Island of Wolves
Words Hold Power
An excerpt from The Beauty in Their Scars when Calysta shows Brendan her scars.
A Song, a Frog, & a Kiss
The first two chapters of a contemporary Christian Retelling of The Frog Prince
Broken Wings, Hospitals, & Frogs
How a Goodreads Review planted the seed for me to write a contemporary Christian retelling of the Frog Prince.
[Book Launch] The Beauty in their Scars
(Re)Launch of my debut novel. This made me feel so emotional!
Wherever We May Be (Silly)
A song from Sabreen & the Silly Singer




