Joanna Pidcock is an Australian essayist, librettist and theatremaker based in the UK. She has worked alongside esteemed theatre artists such as Katie Mitchell and Alice Birch, and has been involved in projects with the Schaubühne, the Barbican Centre, and the Hampstead Theatre. In 2019 she represented the UK as the British Council Young Artist Delegate to the prestigious Séminaire en Avignon residency, as part of the Avignon Festival. She writes about nationhood and identity through the lens of landscape and horticulture, and is currently learning to propagate plants. She's also working on her first book, an exploration of her complex colonial family history, and the act of claiming land; the proposal for this book was shortlisted for the 2021 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize.