Joanna Solfrian’s first book, Visible Heavens, was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye for the 2009 Stan and Tom Wick Prize, a national first book award. Her poems have appeared in journals such as The Harvard Review, Boulevard, Rattle, Salamander, Margie, The Southern Review, Pleiades, Image, and also in the internationally-touring art exhibit Speak Peace: American Voices Respond to Vietnamese Children’s Paintings. She is a graduate of the Stonecoast MFA program, a MacDowell fellow, and a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Joanna lives and works in New York City. www.joannasolfrian.com

The Mud Room, a collection by Joanna Solfrian,
is now available from MadHat Press.