Joan Colby has published widely in journals such as Poetry, Atlanta Review, South Dakota Review, Gargoyle, Pinyon, Little Patuxent Review, Spillway, Midwestern Gothic and others. Awards include two Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Literature. She has published 22 books including "Selected Poems" from FutureCycle Press which received the 2013 FutureCycle Prize and "Ribcage" from Glass Lyre Press which has been awarded the 2015 Kithara Book Prize. Three of her poems have been featured on Verse Daily and another is among the winners of the 2016 Atlanta Review International Poetry Contest. Her newest books are "Her Heartsong" from Presa Press and "Joyriding to Nightfall" from FutureCycle Press.Additionally, a new chapbook "Elements" has just come out from Presa Press. Colby is a senior editor of FutureCycle Press and an associate editor of Good Works Review.