Printable view of Joan Colby

Listed as:

Poet

Public address:

Elgin, IL

Illinois US

Email:

joanmc@aol.com

Bio:

I have written poetry and fiction most of my life. I have been editor of the trade publication Illinois Racing News for over 30 years and I live on a small horse farm in northern Illinois with my husband. I am a senior editor of FutureCycle Press and an associate editor of Good Works Review.

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Favorite authors:

Pablo Neruda Leo Tolstoy Robert Stone William Vollman Flannery O'Connor Lucia Berlin W.B. Yeats Walt Whitman Alice Munro Joyce Carol Oates Elizabeth Bishop James Wright Theodore Roethke Ted Hughes Dylan Thomas Dean Young Richard Wilbur

Twitter/X:

poetjm

Born in:

Chicago, IL

Illinois

Raised in:

Chicago, IL

Illinois

Website:

https://www.joancolby.com [2]

Prizes won:

A fellowship in Literature plus two poetry awards from the Illinois Arts Council, a winner in the 2014 and 2016 Atlanta Review International Poetry Contest, runner-up in the James Hearst Poetry Contest, honorable mentions in numerous contests, awarded the 2015 Kithara Book Prize for "Ribcage" and the 2013 FutureCycle Book Prize for "Selected Poems."

What I'm reading now:

Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson

The Unexpurgated Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath

Do No Harm by Henry Marsh

Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie

Good Trouble by Joseph O'Neill

One Light by Dana Wildsmith

Kudos by Rachel Cusk