Joni B. Cole

Author of Toxic Feedback: Helping Writers Survive and Thrive and Water Cooler Diaries: Women Across America Share Their Day at Work.
Joni B. Cole has taught writing workshops for fifteen years, and is a frequent speaker at writing conferences around the country. She is the author of the acclaimed book Toxic Feedback: Helping Writers Survive and Thrive, which Library Journal strongly recommends to students, teachers, and workshops. American Book Review reports, “I can’t imagine a better guide to [feedback's] rewards and perils than this fine book.”
Joni is also the creator of the popular “This Day” book series, including Water Cooler Diaries: Women Across America Share Their Day at Work (“both fascinating and eye-opening…” Publishers Weekly, 2008).
Her human interest essays appear in her monthly newspaper column “Life as I Know It.”


