10N226 Muirhead
Road
 Elgin, IL 60124


847-464-5250


JoanMC@aol.com



Publications
Books:

Carnival
FutureCycle Press
​
Broke
FutureCycle Press

Pro Forma
Foothills Publishing

Ribcage
Glass Lyre Press

Ah Clio
Kattywompus Press

The Wingback Chair
FutureCycle Press

 Bittersweet
Main Street Rag Press

Properties of Matter
Aldrich Press

  Selected Poems,
FutureCycle Press

 Dead Horses,
FutureCycle Press

 The Lonely Hearts Killers
,Spoon River Poetry Press


           
The Atrocity Book,
 Lynx House Press

             
How The Sky Begins to Fall,
 Spoon River Poetry Press


           
The Boundary Waters,
 Damascus Road Press


           
Blue Woman Dancing in the Nerve,
 Alembic Press,


           
Dream Tree
, Jump River Press


           
Chagall Poems,
 Seven Deadly Sins Press


           
Beheading the Children
, Ommation Press


           
Eleven Poems
, Interim Press



Periodicals
           
Widely published in journals including Poetry, Atlanta Review, GSU
Review, Portland Review, South Dakota Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, New
York Quarterly, the new renaissance, Grand Street, Epoch, Mid-American Poetry
Review, Prairie Schooner, Kansas Quarterly, The Hollins Critic, Minnesota
Review, Western Humanities Review, College English, Another Chicago Magazine and
others.



Awards
           
Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Literature; Illinois Arts Council
Literary Award, Stone County Award for Poetry, Rhino Poetry Award, the new
renaissance Award for Poetry. Finalist in the 2007 GSU Poetry Contest. Honorable
mention in the 2008  and 2010 James
Hearst Poetry Contest(North American Review), Finalist in 2009 Margie Editor’s
Choice Contest, Finalist in 2009 and 2012 Nimrod International Pablo Neruda
Prize. Illinois Arts Council Literary Award 2007, Winner Atlanta Review International
Poetry Contest, 2014. ”Selected Poems” from FutureCycle Press  received the 2013 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize.,
Atlanta Review International Poetry Contest, 2014--Winner.



I am editor of Illinois Racing News for over 30 years, a
  monthly publication for the Illinois Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners
  Foundation, published by Midwest Outdoors LLC. I live with my husband and assorted
animals on a small horse farm in Northern Illinois. I am also associate editor of Kentucky Review
and FutureCycle Press.