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ABOUT JOAN KWON GLASS
Joan Kwon Glass is a diasporic, mixed race, Korean American poet, author of the poetry collection DAUGHTER OF THREE GONE KINGDOMS (Perugia Press, 2024)– winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize & the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Poetry & finalist for the Balcones Poetry Prize. Her first full-length poetry collection, NIGHT SWIM, won the 2021 Diode Book Prize. She has also published two chapbooks–HOW TO MAKE PANCAKES FOR A DEAD BOY (Small Harbor Publishing) & IF RUST CAN GROW ON THE MOON (Milk & Cake Press). Joan has been a finalist for the Subnivean Award, Frontier Poetry’s “(Not) In Love” Haiku Contest, the Helena Whitehill Award & Poetry Northwest’s Possession Sound Series. Her work is forthcoming in Kenyon Review & The Offing & has been featured on NPR & The Slowdown & in Shenandoah, Poetry, Passages North, Poetry Daily, Split Lip, Poetry Northwest, Korea Quarterly, Terrain, Best American Poetry (online), Tahoma Literary Review, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Prairie Schooner & elsewhere.
She has been awarded residencies at Vermont Studio Center, SWWIM & Prospect Street Writers House & has been a visiting writer or featured reader at Amherst College, Wesleyan University, the New School & events such as the Brooklyn Poets Poetry Festival, the Boston Book Festival & the Sarah Lawrence University Poetry Festival. She has served as a judge for various book awards & prizes & teaches writing workshops for several writing centers online. She lives in Connecticut & is founder of the Substack They Say Poetry is Dead! which offers themed writing prompts every Friday. Follow her on IG at joan_kwon_glass.
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