Joan was born in Saddleworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire. She moved to the East Midlands in 1998 to take up a post at the University of Nottingham, where she worked as a lecturer/educational consultant until leaving in 2011 to become a full-time writer. She has been running courses on dream analysis since 1995 and has been dream journaling for over twenty years. As a member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD), she is a regular contributor to the IASD magazine Dreamtime and has made presentations at international conferences in Europe and America. She is trained