Giovanna “Jo” Brunini is a writer and an artist. Generation “restless brood,” at nineteen she dropped out of university, and left home. She later earned a BS from the University of Vermont, with a concentration in mythology and cosmology. Published by EDEN, Evolving Magazine, and Your Tango, she’s appeared on the podcast Face2Face with David Peck. A Vermont native, Jo lives with poet Jonathan Tabakin where they enjoy chance encounters with white egrets, herons, coy-wolves, and the occasional lynx and bear. She has lived in California, Mexico City, the Yucatán, and Rome.

“I don’t know writing without nature, and its boundaries with wilderness. The world without its people. I am drawn to why a certain place feels language rich. About the ways in which we are consciously or unconsciously distanced from each other and our experience of love, positivity and hope.”

—JO BRUNINI