Joanna Brouk (February 20, 1949 – April 28, 2017) was an American electronic composer, author, and playwright who was active in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Inspired by the cadences of poetry and the human voice, as well as the rhythms and soundings of nature, she began creating music.
[5] Brouk's first release, Healing Music, featured the flute of American composer Maggi Payne.
[7] In 1985, Brouk stopped composing and recording music after moving to San Diego, California, where she married and gave birth to a son, and took up the practice of transcendental meditation.
[2] Under the name Joanne (with an "e") Brouk, she became a prolific writer of historical fiction and plays, as well as a notable producer of Internet content.