Joanne Durham is an award-winning poet and teacher, author of Chasing Justice (Shanti Arts 2026), To Drink from a Wider Bowl, winner of the Sinclair Poetry Prize (Evening Street Press 2022), and the chapbook, On Shifting Shoals (Kelsay 2023). A multiple Pushcart Prize nominee, over 100 of her poems appear in literary journals and anthologies. Recent awards include the Miriam Chaikin Poetry Prize, the Poetry Society of Louisiana’s Annual Poetry Prize, and finalist for the Lascaux Poetry Prize. Her ecopoetry appears in Cold Mountain Review, Cider Press Review, Feral, Banyan Review, Kakalak, and The Nature of Our Times anthology, among others. She has studied ecopoetry with Martha Silano, Liz Bradfield, and Camille Dungy, and is headed to the first Hellbender Gathering in October 2026. She has taught ecopoetry workshops through the Osher Lifelong Learning Center at UNCW and online through Yellow Arrow Publishing and Maine Media, and co-hosts a monthly poetry event sponsored by the Island Arts Council of Carolina and Kure Beach. Visit her at https://www.joannedurham.com.
Joanne Durham
