Joan Michelson

Joan Michelson won first prize in the Bristol Poetry Competition, UK, 2015, first prize in the Torriano Competition, UK, 2014, and she received the Hamish Canham prize from the Poetry Society of England, 2012.  Her writing has been selected for several British Council and Arts Council anthologies of New Writing. Her first full collection, Toward the Heliopause was published by Poetic Matrix Press, CA, USA, 2011.  Her most recent chapbook, Bloomvale Home, portraits of residents in a care home, was published by Original Plus Books, UK, 2016.  Originally from New England, USA, Joan lives in London, England.