Joan Canby
Author of Cascades
Joan Canby, the author of Cascades, has an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her poetry has been published in Poetry South, Forage, Place Journal, California Quarterly, The Hawaiian Advertiser, Illyas Honey, Texas Observer, Forces, Beginnings, New Voices, Cape Rock, Voices Project, Brevitas, Broken Plate, Main Street Rag, Presence and Thema. Her chapbook Metaxe was published in 2010 about the Holy Land. Her stories and articles have appeared in numerous magazines, including International Society for Performance Instruction, Society of Technical Communicators, Mature Living, Women’s Circle, Yankee Horseman’s Pedlar, Road Rider, Modus Operandi, and Noticias Santa Barbara Historical Society. She was the recipient of a second-place prize in biography from the National Society of Arts and Letters (NSAL) for her biography of Marie Louise, Empress of France and Archduchess of Parma. Her chapbook, Write of Divorce, was a quarterfinalist for the Mary Ballard Chapbook 2013 contest. Her chapbook of 27 Pantoums, Sunrise to Moonlight, was a semifinalist for the Mary Ballard Chapbook 2014 contest. She lives in Dallas, TX.
For more info, visit joancanby.com
