Joan Colby has published widely in journals such as Poetry, The Spoon River Poetry Review, New York Quarterly, the new renaissance, Grand Street, Epoch and Prairie Schooner. She has received numerous awards and has published a number of books, including The Lonely Hearts Killers, How the Sky Begins to Fall, The Atrocity Book, Dead Horses, Selected Poems and Properties of Matter. Two chapbooks are forthcoming in 2014.

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