Following a brief foray into the slam and performance poetry world, Joanne Dominique Dwyer went on to earn a BA in Creative Writing from the College of Santa Fe and an MFA from Warren Wilson College. She is a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a Bread Loaf Scholar award, and the Anne Halley Poetry Prize, and her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Conduit, FIELD, The Massachusetts Review, New England Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, and TriQuarterly. Dwyer resides in Northern New Mexico where she works as facilitator for the Alzheimer's Poetry Project.