Joan Larkin is in her fourth decade of teaching writing.
10 Facts About Joan Larkin
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Joan Larkin earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at Swarthmore College, a Master of Arts degree in English at the University of Arizona, and a Master of Fine Arts degree in playwriting at Brooklyn College.
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Joan Larkin is a member of the core faculty of the Master of Fine Arts Program in Poetry Writing at Drew University.
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Joan Larkin has participated in institutions and theater companies as a visiting instructor at West Side YMCA Writers Community in New York for a couple of years.
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Joan Larkin's writing includes The Hole in the Sheet, a Klezmer musical farce, and two books of daily meditations in the Hazelden recovery series: If You Want What We Have and Glad Day.
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Joan Larkin is the 2011 recipient of the Academy of American Poets Fellowship.
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Joan Larkin has received the Poetry Society of America's 2011 Shelley Memorial Award.
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Joan Larkin has received the Publishing Triangle's 2008 Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry, for her book My Body: New and Selected Poems.
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Joan Larkin served as poetry editor for the first three years of the queer literary journal Bloom.
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Joan Larkin is co-editor, with David Bergman, of the Living Out autobiography series at the University of Wisconsin Press.