• Joanna Fuhrman
  • Joanna Fuhrman
  • Assistant Teaching Professor
  • Bio:

    JOANNA FUHRMAN  is the author of six books of poetry, most recently  To a New Era (Hanging Loose Press 2021), The Year of Yellow Butterflies (Hanging Loose Press 2015), and Pageant (Alice James Books 2009). Her seventh book Data Mind, a collection of darkly comic, surreal prose poems about the internet, is forthcoming from Curbstone/Northwestern University Press in 2024.  She is a former poetry editor of Ping Pong and Boog City and served as the Monday night coordinator for the poetry readings at the Poetry Project at Saint Mark’s Church from 2001-2003 and the Wednesday night coordinator from 2010-2011. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including The Baffler, The Believer,  Conduit, and Denver Quarterly, as well as on the Poetry Foundation and the Academy of American Poets (poem-a-day) websites, and in anthologies published by Soft Skull Press, HarperCollins, New York University, and Carnegie Mellon University. Her poem “Stagflation” won a 2011 Pushcart Prize,  her poem “Lavender” was featured on The Slowdown podcast, and in 2023, a poem will appear in The Best American Poetry anthology.  She also creates poetry videos that are on her own Vimeo site and in literary journals. After publishing with them since she was a teenager, she became a co-editor of Hanging Loose Press in 2022.

  • Classes Taught: Advanced Poetry Writing, Poetry Writing, Introduction to Creative Writing, Introduction to Multimedia (Walking and Mapping), and Introduction to Multimedia: (Make it New: Rewriting and Remixing)