Joan Colby’s books include The Lonely Hearts Killers, The Atrocity Book, How The Sky Begins to Fall, The Boundary Waters, Blue Woman Dancing in the Nerve, Dream Tree, and Beheading the Children. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Atlanta Review, GSU Review, Portland Review, Rockhurst Review, South Dakota Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Karamu, New York Quarterly, the new renaissance, Grand Street, Epoch, Mid-American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Kansas Quarterly, The Hollins Critic, Minnesota Review, Western Humanities Review, College English, Another Chicago Magazine and others.