Joan Roberta Ryan is a writer living in Taos, New Mexico where she indulges her passions for reading and writing poetry, skiing, hiking, and cooking Mediterranean foods. Formerly, she ran her own direct marketing agency in Philadelphia, handled advertising and publicity for New York publishers and studied Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. Her recent poems appear or are forthcoming in The Atlanta Review, Roanoke Review, Off the Coast, Concho River Review, Prick of the Spindle and other venues.

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