Joann is the Staff Assistant for the Writing & Rhetoric Program & a Part-time instructor for English Department at SUNY New Paltz.

She earned her M.A., English at the State University of New York, College at New Paltz (2003).

Teaching & Research Interests

Composition and rhetoric; the body; kinship/adoption; creativity and mental health; poetry.

Publications/Editing

Chapbook, Lost & Found. Finishing Line Press. Available for order here, forthcoming January 2025.

Guest editor (poetry) for the Shawangunk Review. Spring 2020-present.

Poem, “Stained Glass.” Blithe Spirit *British Haiku Society journal. August 2024.

Poem, “Duplex.” Contemporary Haibun Online. December 2023.

Poems, “Forecast” & “Last Call.” Comstock Review. Spring/Summer 2023.

Poem, “Echolocation.” Drifting Sands 21. May/June 2023.

Poem, “The Naming.” Stone Poetry Quarterly. February 2023.

Poem, “Notes for New Writers.” Honorable mention for Contest judged by Ellen Bass. Comstock Review. Fall 2022.

Broadside of Selected Poems, Greenkill Gallery October 2021.

Poems, “Angel of Constellations” and “At Home.” Stone Poetry Journal, Issue 2. Fall 2021.

Poem, “Swimming.” Typishly 2020.

Article, Untitled. Reflecting Pool: Poets and the Creative Process.
Laurence Carr, Ed. Codhill Press 2018.

Article, “Axing the Frozen Sea: Female Inscriptions of Madness.” Affective (Dis)order and the Writing Life: The Melancholic Muse, Stephanie Stone Horton, Ed. Palgrave Macmillan 2013.

Associate Editor (poetry) for WaterWrites: A Hudson River Anthology   Celebrating the Hudson 400, Laurence Carr, Ed. Codhill Press 2009.

For recent updates, see Publications and Projects on the top menu.

For examples of professional documents like study guides and service publications that I’ve composed or edited, visit my Linkedin page.

Committee Memberships & Professional Organizations

Writing & Rhetoric Committee (2007-present)

Teaching Assistant Hiring Committee (2008-present)

Calling All Poets Member (2021-2024)

Woodstock Poetry Society Member (2021-2022; 2024-2025)

Composition Handbook Committee (2007-2015)

Common Summer Reading Committee (2007-2016)

William Vasse Poetry Board (2002-2003; 2007-2012)

Former MLA and NYCEA member