Joan Thomas (born 1949)[1] is a Canadian novelist and book reviewer from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Thomas grew up in Carberry, Manitoba and later worked as a freelance journalist and book reviewer for The Globe and Mail, the Winnipeg Free Press and Prairie Fire, and as a book editor for Turnstone Press.

[4] Her second novel, Curiosity, was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, and the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award.

Both novels were longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award.

[5] In 2019, her novel Five Wives won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction.