Joanna Maneckji

Joanna Maneckji is a Singapore-based author, educator and artist who transforms seemingly random cutouts into expressive works of art that challenge perceptions, spark joy and promote understanding. Joanna uses collage as a medium to help teams and individuals slow down, collaborate, process thoughts and emotions, and communicate.

Soon after her son began to walk, Joanna made her first collage as a creative outlet that brought meditative focus and calm, then, when her father died, she turned to collage again to process grief. Fifteen years later, her debut storybook Letters to My Grandfather — simultaneously a gift of love to her father, her son Mikko and to readers who will delight in its tale — is a product of that journey.

Born into a multicultural, multinational family in Mumbai, Joanna studied anthropology at Smith College and has earned a master’s degree in teaching.