Joan Kwon Glass’s first full-length poetry collection, NIGHT SWIM won the 2021 Diode Poetry Prize. She is the author of BLOODLINE, winner of the Harbor Review Washburn Prize, the chapbook HOW TO MAKE PANCAKES FOR A DEAD BOY, which won the Harbor Editions Marginalia Contest & the chapbook “If Rust Can Grow on the Moon” (Milk & Cake Press, 2022). In 2021 she was a Runner-Up for the Sundress Publications Chapbook Contest, a finalist for the Harbor Review Editor’s Prize, the Subnivean Award & the Lumiere Review Writing Contest. Joan is a graduate of Smith College & serves as poet laureate for the city of Milford, CT & as poetry co-editor for West Trestle Review. She has spent the past 20 years as an educator in the Connecticut public schools. Her poems have recently been published or are forthcoming in Diode, The Rupture, Nelle, Rattle, Pirene’s Fountain, SWWIM, Dialogist, South Florida Poetry Journal, Honey Literary, Mom Egg, Rust & Moth, Lantern Review & many others. Joan has been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize & Best of the Net. She tweets @joanpglass & you may read her previously published work at www.joankwonglass.com.
