Joanne Bertin is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories that feature dragons as a recurring motif. She was born in 1953 in Manhattan, but lived there only briefly, as her family soon returned to their home in Stamford, Connecticut.
Bertin held a variety of jobs including factory worker, coloring comic books when the color separation was done by hand, and working as an assistant goatherd on a dairy farm. At the time of writing the FAQ page for her now-defunct website, she had worked for twenty years in libraries. She does not make a living from writing, but pursues it because of personal pleasure and a desire to entertain others.
