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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.and 2016. ”Selected Poems” from FutureCycle Press received the 2013 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize.,Ribcage from Glass Lyre Press received the 2015 Kithara Book Prize. Atlanta Review International Poetry Contest, 2014--Winner. 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 a senior editor of FutureCycle Press and associate editor of Kentucky Review. |