Author of FIG SEASON (Turning Point, 2023), THE CAMERA ARTIST (Turning Point, 2021), THE ALMOST SOUND OF DROWNING (Main Street Rag, 2008). Co-curate the Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series at White Whale Bookstore with Kristofer Collins. www.hemingwayspoetryseries.blogspot.com. For a review of THE CAMERA ARTIST: https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/books/2021/03/28/Joan-Bauer-The-Camera-Artist-review/stories/202103280018Poems have appeared in: Adanna Literary Journal, After Happy Hour Review, American Journal of Poetry, Arabesques, Calyx, Chiron Review, Cider Press Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Coal Hill Review, Comstock Review, Confrontation, Evening Street Review, 5 AM, Free State Review, Golden Streetcar, Iconoclast, Infection House, Iodine, Italian Americana, Jewish Currents, Main Street Rag, Muddy River Poetry Review, Paterson Literary Review, Pearl, Pittsburgh Quarterly, Poet Lore, Prism International, Review Americana, Rune, Quarterly West, Slipstream, Third Wednesday, Transnational Literature (Australia), Uppagus, US 1 Worksheets, Voices from the Attic (Carlow University), Voices in Italian Americana, Vox Populi: A Public Sphere for Poetry, Politics and Nature, Zone 3. My work has also appeared in more than a dozen poetry anthologies, including:Beyond the Lyric Moment (Tebot Bach, 2014) Edited by Lynne Thompson, Cathie Sandstrom and Jim Natal.The Brentwood Anthology (Lummox, 2014) Edited by Judith Robinson and Michael Wurster.Don't Blame the Ugly Mug: Ten Years of 2 Idiots Peddling Poetry (Tebot Bach, 2011) Edited by Steve Ramirez and Ben Trigg. Nasty Women & Bad Hombres Poetry Anthology (Lascaux Editions, 2018) Edited by Deena November and Nina Padolf.Only the Sea Keeps: Poetry of the Tsunami (Bayeux Arts, 2008). Edited by Judith Robinson, Joan E. Bauer and Sankar Roy.Show Us Your Papers: (Main Street Rag, 2020). Edited by Daniela Buccilli, Wendy Scott Paff and Cherise Pollard.In 2007, my poem, "Sleepers," won the Earle Birney Poetry Prize from Prism International. In 2018, I wasa finalist for the John Ciardi Poetry Prize from BkMk Press. I am a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee.I can be reached by email at: JBauer103w@aol.com or by phone at 498-7876. If you live in Pittsburgh, PA, you might want to join my poetry e-blast. I'm also on Twitter @Joan_E_Bauer I'm a member of Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill Poetry Workshop, the Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange, and the Madwomen in the Attic program at Carlow University. When I'm in So Cal, I attend poetry workshops at Beyond Baroque and the Laguna Poets Workshop whenever possible.