Joan Elizabeth London (born 1948) is an Australian author of short stories, screenplays and novels.

She graduated from the University of Western Australia, having studied English and French; she has taught English as a second language and is a bookseller.

[2] London is the author of two collections of stories.

The first, Sister Ships and Other Stories, won The Age Book of the Year (1986), and the second, Letter to Constantine, won the Steele Rudd Award and the Western Australian Premier's Book Award for Fiction (both in 1994).

[2] She has published three novels, Gilgamesh (2001), The Good Parents (2008) and The Golden Age (2014).