Joanne Durham lives on the North Carolina coast, with the ocean as her backyard and muse. She is the author of To Drink from a Wider Bowl, winner of the Sinclair Poetry Prize (Evening Street Press 2022) and On Shifting Shoals (Kelsay Books 2023). Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Poetry South (Pushcart nominee), Calyx, Poetry East, Whale Road Review, Gyroscope, Quartet, Juniper, Kosmos Quarterly, Writers Resist, NC Literary Review and many other journals. When not immersed in poetry, she practices yoga, plays tennis, and works towards a better world for her grandchildren to grow up in. https://www.joannedurham.com/