Joanna Simmons is a freelance writer and journalist. She has written several books on interiors, a humorous 'non-guide' to parenting called Can I Give Them Back Now? and a series of fiction for young readers, the first of which, Pip Street - A Whiskery Mystery, was published by Scholastic on 4 March 2013. She lives in Brighton.

Can I Give Them Back Now? with Jay Curtis was published by Square Peg in June 2009.