Publications

Hi. My name is Johanna Bailey and I work as a freelance writer, translator (Spanish-English) and illustrator.

I have been published in newspapers and magazines throughout the United States, the UK, Israel, Japan and Spain. In addition to my freelance work, I wrote a weekly food column for The Jerusalem Post newspaper and I currently write a parenting column for Metropolitan Magazine in Barcelona.

For the past eight years my family and I have been traveling the world and having all kinds of interesting experiences that range from the enlightening to the humiliating (usually I am enlightened and humiliated simultaneously). From 2003-2006, we lived in Tokyo, where I sang ABCs for a bunch of Burberry plaid clad Japanese kids whose parents were hoping to turn them into geniuses by the age of three. I taught them words such as “smelter” and “Gorgonzola” which I’m sure will come in handy in their future as child prodigies. Next we spent a year living in Lausanne, Switzerland and although I missed Tokyo a lot, I didn’t miss being called “Sir,” a frequent occurrence in Japan. In 2008 we picked up our family and moved again, this time to Madrid, Spain. Now we live in Barcelona where I recently graduated from the Hofmann culinary school. Confused? Me too.

I have a blog called Johanna Writes Barcelona

Please contact me at johannabailey dot gmail dot com if you are interested in hiring me.

Selected Publications

-“Books, roses and bread in Barcelona”: Culinate.com

-”How I learned to cut up a chicken”: Culinate.com

-”Skeletons in the Closet”: The Washington Post

-”Diorama Club”: New York Magazine (written under the name “Anna Dilemna”)

-”Talking Smack”: Brain, Child Magazine

-”Global Naming”: Babble.com (written under the name “Anna Dilemna”)

-”Remade in France”: Craft magazine (Issue 9)

-”Spynning Stories”: Craft magazine (Issue 8) (written under the name “Anna Dilemna”)

-”Cardboard Fun”: Practical Parenting (UK parenting magazine) (written under the name “Anna Dilemna”)

-”Decorrugated”: Craft magazine (Issue 6) (written under the name “Anna Dilemna”)

-”Not Your Grandpa’s Embroidery”: Craft magazine (Issue 4) (written under the name “Anna Dilemna”)

-”Boxing Clever”: The Green Parent (UK parenting magazine) (written under the name “Anna Dilemna”)

-”Seven Handsome Men Who Craft”: Craft magazine (Issue 3) (written under the name “Anna Dilemna”)

-”Her Future’s So Bright, She’s Gotta Wear Skates”: Venus Zine (written under the name “Anna Dilemna”)

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