Joan Kwon Glass

Joan Kwon Glass is a Korean diasporic author, winner of the 2024 Perugia Press Poetry Prize for her manuscript DAUGHTER OF THREE GONE KINGDOMS (September, 2024) & author of NIGHT SWIM, winner of the Diode Book Prize (Diode Editions, 2022). She has also published two chapbooks: HOW TO MAKE PANCAKES FOR A DEAD BOY (Small Harbor Publishing, 2022) & IF RUST CAN GROW ON THE MOON (Milk & Cake Press, 2022). Joan serves as editor-in-chief for Harbor Review, poet laureate for Milford, CT & as a teacher for several writing centers including Brooklyn Poets, Corporeal & Hudson Valley Writers Center. Her poems have been featured or are forthcoming in Poetry Daily, The Slowdown, Poetry Northwest, Terrain, Ninth Letter, Rattle, AAWW (The Margins), Tahoma Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, Cherry Tree, Juniper, Salamander, Psaltery & Lyre, Texas Review & elsewhere. She has been a finalist for the Tupelo Press Helena Whitehill Book Award, the University of Akron Poetry Prize, the Poetry Northwest Possession Sound Series, the Subnivean Award & the Lumiere Review Award. Joan lives in coastal Connecticut where she is a public school educator.