Joanna Goodman's stories have appeared in "B & A Fiction, Event, The New Quarterly" and "The White Wall Review". In 1996 Joanna Goodman was a winner in the Canadian Author's Association Short Fiction Contest. At one time she worked as a journalist for Reuters in Ottawa, and her day job now is co-owner (with her mother) of a bed linen store, "Au Lit" linens, in Toronto. Since "Belle of the Bayou" she has written two more novels, "You Made Me Love You" and "Harmony".