About the Author

Joanne Lowery was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and educated at the University of Michigan and University of Wisconsin. Her poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including Birmingham Poetry Review, Poetry East, Cimarron Review, Eclipse, roger, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Smartish Pace. Her chapbook Diorama won the Poems & Plays Thirteenth Annual Chapbook Prize, and Call Me Misfit received the 2009 Frank Cat Press Chapbook Prize. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.