- She was home schooled by her mother until she was 12 years old.
- She writes adult fantasy stories.
- She has said that her poetry has been influenced in Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain.
- She used to study at the Wychwood School when she was young.
- Her mother's name was Jessie McDonald Aiken.
- She worked at the London office of the United Nations for ten years and also she worked at the Argosy Magazine as a copy editor.
- Her hobbies are painting and gardening at her home.
- Her husband's name is Ronald George Brown.
- She used to work for BBC before she started her career as a writer.
- The last novel that she published was called "The Witch of Clattering Claws" and was published in 2005.
- She received the Guardian Award in 1969.
- She published her novel "Black Hearts in Battersea" in 1964.
- She received the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1972.
- Joan Aiken: (in an interview) Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of progress if you write something hopefully you write about something that's better or more interesting that circumstances as they now are.
