Joan Kwon Glass is the mixed-race, Korean diasporic author of the forthcoming collection DAUGHTER OF THREE GONE KINGDOMS (winner of the Perugia Press Poetry Prize) & NIGHT SWIM (2022), winner of the Diode Editions Book Award, as well as the chapbooks HOW TO MAKE PANCAKES FOR A DEAD BOY (Harbor Editions, 2022) and IF RUST CAN GROW ON THE MOON (Milk & Cake Press, 2022). Her books & poems have been featured on Poetry Daily, The Slowdown & Rattlecast & she has been a finalist for the Poetry Northwest Possession Sound Series, the Tupelo Helena Whitehill Award, the University of Akron Poetry Prize & the Subnivean Award. Her work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, Ninth Letter, Cherry Tree, Tahoma Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, Salamander, AAWW (The Margins), RHINO, Rattle, Juniper & elsewhere. Joan is editor-in-chief of Harbor Review, poet laureate for the city of Milford, CT, & teaches for writing centers across the country, including Brooklyn Poets, Hudson Valley Writers Workshop & Corporeal. She lives in coastal Connecticut & is available for manuscript consultations, residencies, readings, speaking engagements & workshops.
Joan Kwon Glass, Poet 