Joanie Puma

Poet

New Mexico US

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Author's Bio

Longing Distance: Poems of Love, Lust & Geography (Finishing Line Press) was published in 2018. Before that, Joanie Puma was Night Life reporter and occasional Talk of the Town reporter for The New Yorker in the '70s and '80s. Her fiction and non-fiction and drama have also appeared in Grand Street, Wigwag, Baseball Monologues (Heinemann Books) and The New York Times. She lives in New Mexico.

Writers Retreats:

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

Publications & Prizes

Book:

LONGING DISTANCE: Poems of Love, Lust & Geography (Finishing Line Press, 2018)

Prizes won:

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts fellowships, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1994;

Blue Mountain Center fellowship, 1992.

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

New York City, NY

New York

Raised in:

Galveston, TX

Texas

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Last update: Jun 26, 2022