BOA Authors & Poets

Joan Swift

Joan Swift is the author of four previous poetry collections: This Element (Alan Swallow, 1965); Parts of Speech (Confluence Press, 1978); The Dark Path of Our Names (Dragon Gate, 1985), and Intricate Moves: Poems About Rape (Chicory Blue Press, 1997). She is the recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships and a writing grant from the Ingram Merrill Foundation. Her poems have been widely published in anthologies and literary journals including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, DoubleTake and American Poetry Review. She lives in Edmonds, Washington.

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