Joanne McNeil’s was the inaugural winner of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation's Arts Writing Award for an emerging writer. She has been a resident at Eyebeam, a Logan Nonfiction Program fellow, and an instructor at the School for Poetic Computation. Her first book Lurking: How a Person Became a User was published in 2020 and her debut novel Wrong Way as well as her next nonfiction book Too Early for the Future are both forthcoming from MCD/FSG.