Born some time ago on Tyneside, Jo Nesbitt studied English

at University College, London. Her first cartoons appeared

in feminist, civil liberties and community service publications.

She later worked for various educational publishers in England

and the Netherlands. Based in Amsterdam since 1982,

she now works as cartoonist, illustrator and Dutch-English translator.

Her work has appeared in many publications, including

The Guardian, Spare Rib,

New Statesman, Time Out and

Vrij Nederland, and has been

published, among others, by

Penguin Books, Blackwell,

Sheldon Press, Virago, Routledge

and the Russell Press in England,

and in the Netherlands by publishers

Sara, Wolters-Noordhoff, Malmberg and Meulenhoff.

Publications include:

Sourcream (with Liz Mackie, Christine Roche and Lesley Ruda), Sheba 1980

The Great Escape of Doreen Potts (children’s book) Sheba, 1981

The Modern Ladies’ Compendium, Virago Press 1986

The Desperate Woman’s Guide to Therapy

(text by the late and much lamented Gill Reeve), Penguin Books 1997

The Desperate Woman’s Guide to Diet and Exercise, Penguin Books 1998

Courses and workshops:

March 2010:

Winter Workshop Botanical Drawing

at the Hortus Botanicus and Herbarium, Leiden,

led by Anita Walsmit Sachs.

2000:

Workshop marbling (painting technique),

led by Steef van Hout, Atelier Métisse, Amsterdam.

1990s:

Wood and stone carving with

sculptor Fien Volders, Amsterdam

Etching and drypoint techniques

with Fien Volders, Amsterdam

Etching and drypoint techniques

with Hilke Tasman, Amsterdam

Dutch-English translation:

Articles and readings on the history and science of literature, art criticism

and general subjects, and the following books:

Spiritual Crisis – Varieties and Perspectives

of a Transpersonal Phenomenon

by Fransje de Waard,

Imprint Academic, Exeter, England. April 2010

‘I have heard about you’ – Foreign women’s

 writing crossing the Dutch border:

 from Sappho to Selma Lagerlöf 

(ed. Suzan van Dijk), Uitgeverij Verloren,

 Hilversum, The Netherlands. 2004