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Joan Baranow is the author of six poetry collections, including Reading Szymborska in a Time of Plague, winner of the 2021 Brick Road Poetry Book Contest. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The Gettysburg Review, Blackbird, Nostos, Poetry East, JAMA and elsewhere. A VCCA fellow and member of the Community of Writers, she founded and teaches in the Low-Residency MFA program in Creative Writing at »¨¶ùÖ±²¥ University of California. With her husband David Watts, they produced the PBS documentary Healing Words: Poetry & Medicine. Her feature-length documentary, The Time We Have, presents an intimate portrait of a teenager facing terminal illness. You can find her recent filmmaking at

Education

Rutgers University, PhD, English

SUNY- Binghamton, MA, English with Certificate in Creative Writing

Hollins College, BA, English

Research Interests

Contemporary American poetry, southern writers, narrative medicine, and the craft of documentary filmmaking.

Honors and Awards

• Rochelle Radner Award, Marsh Hawk Press
• Nominated for Outstanding Teacher of the Year, »¨¶ùÖ±²¥ University of California, 2008 and 2012