JoEllen Notte is a writer, speaker, and mental health advocate whose work explores the impact of depression on sex and relationships. Since 2012 she has written about sex, mental health, and how none of us are broken on her award-winning site The Redhead Bedhead, as well as for Glamour, the BBC, Bitch, PsychCentral and more.

JoEllen’s first book, The Monster Under the Bed: Sex, Depression, and the Conversations We Aren’t Having, was published by Thorntree Press in March 2020. Her second, In It Together: Navigating Depression with Partners, Friends, and Family, was released in March 2023.