Jo Packham

A leading innovator in the handmade publishing market for more than 35 years, Jo Packham is currently the creator and Editor-in-Chief of several best-selling magazines: Where Women Create, Where Women Cook, Where Women Create Work, and What Women Create.

Packham believes we all have a story to tell and she also believes it is her job to give a venue to those ideas. Today, she is following through with her own vision through her partnership with Madavor Media. For the beauty, content, and magnificent design of these magazines, Mr. Magazine™ has included all four of the titles into his Baker’s Dozen of fantastic new publications. In February 2019, Where Women Create Work was honored by Samir Husni (Mr. Magazine) and the MPA (Association of Magazine Media) as the hottest magazine launched in 2018, and was selected as #1 out of over 700 publications launched in 2018.

A successful entrepreneur, Packham began her career with The Vanessa-Ann Collection, which published paperback how-to publications selling millions of copies. This led to her publishing companies, CHAPELLE Ltd. and later WWC PRESS, which packaged more than 1,000 titles for most major publishers in the industry including: Sterling, Time Warner, Oxmoor House, Meredith Corp. (Better Homes & Gardens), Rodale Press, Random House, Chronicle, Barnes & Noble, and others.