Joan Mauch has been a writer all her life, but only recently had her first novel, HALIFAX (Whiskey Creek Press, 2013) published. A native of Illinois, she lived in Seattle, Portland, Oregon, and Chicago over the course of her life variously working as a teacher, public aid caseworker, head of a nonprofit housing development corporation, real estate sales agent, public relations executive, vice president of PR/marketing for a national association and most recently as proofreader for a local newspaper.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and a master’s in urban studies. During her leisure time, she visits her son in Tampa, Florida, and runs having participated in the Quad-Cities half-marathon and the Bix 7 Race.