Joanna is the author of three collections of poetry published by Hanging Loose Press, Freud in Brooklyn (2000), Ugh Ugh Ocean (2003), and Moraine (2006.) Her fourth book, Pageant, won a Kinereth Gensler award and was published by Alice James Books in December 2009. She is the poetry editor for Boog City, a community newspaper for the Lower East Side. Joanna is a graduate of the University of Washington’s MFA program, which awarded her the Academy of American Poets Prize and the Joan Grayson Award.

Her work has been widely reviewed and quoted in many publications, including The Stranger and the New York Times. David Lehman in the Wall Street Journal called Freud in Brooklyn “an impressive first collection,” and Publishers Weekly urged, “Don’t miss this one.” Joanna’s books have been taught in poetry classes at the University of Louisiana, the University of Maine, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Arizona, and Sarah Lawrence College, and she has read her work at colleges, literary centers, bookstores, and galleries across the country. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Lit, New American Writing, The Believer, Fence, Quarterly West, Conduit, and American Letters and Commentary; and in anthologies published by Soft Skull Press, HarperCollins, New York University, the Pushcart Press and Carnegie Mellon University. Joanna has written short plays that were produced at La MaMa and the Bleeker Street Theater, and she has worked as the Monday night and the Wednesday night coordinator for the Poetry Project at Saint Mark’s Church. Her essays on teaching poetry appear regularly in _Teachers & Writers Magazine).

Joanna has been teaching writing since 1996. She has taught creative writing at the University of Washington, Rutgers University, Montclair State, the Cooper Union Saturday Outreach Program, William Patterson’s Writers Conference, and the Poetry Project at Saint Mark’s Church, as well as through Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, LEAP, the Waterways project, Poets House, and the Comprehensive English Preparation Project. She has developed curriculum that integrates creative writing with visual art and global history and loves teaching students of all ages and levels. For more information, please visit her at www.joannafuhrman.com.

E-mail: Jofuhrman@gmail.com