The day the Director of the Emmy-award-winning Ellen DeGeneres Show, Lenn Goodside, called her material “fresh”, “bold”, and “full of energy” was a good day in the life of writer, Mary-Jo Dionne. This bi-coastal Canadian has worked as an advertising copywriter on North America’s biggest brands – from McDonald’s Restaurants to Nike Canada. A finalist for Vancouver’s Funniest New Female Comedian and Vancouver’s Funniest Person with a Day Job, her writing was called “A masterpiece of urban satire that will have you laughing so hard you’ll glow,” by The Globe and Mail. She is a regular contributor to ModernDog Magazine, a former Contributing Editor for The Block Magazine, and most recently her work has appeared in FASHION Magazine.
A former Flight Attendant, Mary-Jo holds a Bachelor of Arts, a Bachelor of Education, a Post-Graduate Certificate in Media Copywriting, and can recite her old welcome on-board announcements at parties – in both official languages.
She is founder of TheFleasKnees tees and TheFleasKneesFund, created in an effort to help fund no-kill animal shelters.
Whether you know her as Mary-Jo, emjay, jojo, or Jo, she is always, absolutely, no-matter-what, simply ink.