JoAnn Balingit

Author's Bio

JoAnn Balingit is Delaware's 16th Poet Laureate, appointed by Governor Ruth Ann Minner in May 2008. A resident of Delaware since 1990, JoAnn has travelled widely, living California and Kentucky, and for several years abroad in Morocco and Portugal. She holds masters degrees in literature and in Library and Information Science. In summer 2008, she earned a Doctorate of Education at the University of Delaware. JoAnn’s recent work appears in the summer 2009 issues of The Pedestal Magazine and Harpur Palate, in the fall 2009 issue of Philadelphia Stories. For more information on Delaware's poet laureateship, see http://www.artsdel.org/services/poetlaureate.shtml

Publications and Prizes

Chapbooks:

Your Heart and How It Works (Spire Press, 2009)

Anthologies:

On the Mason-Dixon Line: An Anthology of Contemporary Delaware Writers (University of Delaware Press, 2008), Best New Poets 2007 (Samovar Press, 2007), DIAGRAM.2 (Del Sol Press, 2006), Returning a Borrowed Tongue (Coffee House Press, 1996)

Journals:

Can We Have Our Ball Back, Diagram, Harpur Palate, Pearl Magazine, Rolling Stone, Salt Hill Journal, Smartish Pace

Prizes:

JoAnn's awards include a Delaware Division of the Arts fellowship, a Pushcart Prize nomination for “Your Heart and How it Works,” and the 2008 Norman H. Runge Award for her essay, "Some Boy Somewhere." She’s been awarded a 2009 Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation creative fellowship for a residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

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Listing last updated: October 28, 2009

More Information

Listed as:

Poet

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Identifies as:

Asian American, Filipino American

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Columbus, OH

Raised in:

Lakeland, FL

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