Illinois Authors

Joanne Diaz

Born:
Connection to Illinois: Diaz is Associate Professor and Chair of the English department at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington.

Biography: Joan Diaz grew up in Billerica, Massachusetts. She received her BA from Tufts University; her MFA from New York University, where she was a New York Times fellow; and her PhD in English literature from Northwestern University, where she wrote a dissertation that focused on English Renaissance complaint poetry.

Diaz's poetry has appeared in AGNI, The American Poetry Review, and Prairie Schooner, among other publications. She is also a past recipient of writing fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.

• ''My Favorite Tyrants'',
• -- The Brittingham Prize in Poetry
• ''The Lessons'',
• -- Gerald Cable Book Award

Primary Literary Genre(s): Poetry

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Web: https://www.iwu.edu/english/faculty/Diaz.html
Web: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/joanne-diaz
E-Mail: jdiaz@iwu.edu
WorldCat: http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Joanne++Diaz

Selected Titles

	My Favorite Tyrants ISBN: 0299297845 OCLC: 874965494 University of Wisconsin Press, 2014.
	The Lessons ISBN: 1878851594 OCLC: 683247731 Silverfish Review Press : Eugene, OR : 2011. Poems.