Joan Kwon Glass is a diasporic, mixed-race, Korean American poet, author of the poetry collection Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms (Perugia Press, 2024) which won the Paterson Prize & the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Poetry & was a finalist for the Balcones Poetry Prize. Her book Night Swim won the Diode Book Prize. Joan’s poems are forthcoming or have been featured on NPR, Poetry Daily, Best American Poetry & The Slowdown & in Poetry, Passages North, Poetry Northwest, Korea Quarterly, Split Lip, Prairie Schooner and elsewhere. She is a 2025 SWWIM writer in residence. She teaches workshops at writing centers such as Brooklyn Poets, Poets House, and Hudson Valley Writers Center, and lives in Milford, CT.
This hybrid event will take place IN-PERSON at the Downtown Writers Center and ONLINE via Zoom.