Joanna Luloff grew up in Massachusetts, received her MFA from Emerson College and her PhD from University of Missouri. From 1996-1998, she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Sri Lanka. Her short stories have been published in The Missouri Review, Confrontation, New South, and Memorious. The Beach at Galle Road is her first book and was published by Algonquin Books in October, 2012.