Joanie Mackowski

• Name — Joanie Mackowski • Born — 1963 • Birthplace — Illinois, U.S. • Occupation — Poet • Education — Wesleyan University University of Washington University of Missouri (PhD) • Awards — Kate Tufts Discovery Award (2003) Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award (2008)

Born in Illinois in 1963, Mackowski grew up in Darien, Connecticut. She completed a B.A. in English at Wesleyan University. At the University of Washington she earned both an M.F.A. in English (Poetry) in 1991, and also an M.A. in English in 1993. She was a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. In 2004 Mackowski earned a Ph.D. at the University of Missouri Columbia with three emphases: creative writing (poetry); American poetry (19th and 20th centuries); and history of poetics. Her dissertation was titled Conversation Pieces: original poems, with an introductory chapter, "Rethinking Poetic Voice".

In Mackowski's early career, she held adjunct professorships at Seattle Central Community College, from 1995–1996; Roger Williams University, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, from 1997 – 1998; and Stanford University's writing and critical thinking department in 2000. Mackowski was a graduate fellow at the University of Missouri–Columbia's English department from 2000 – 2004, and was as an assistant professor in English and comparative literature at the University of Cincinnati's McMicken College from 2004 – 2010. At the University of Missouri, Mackowski taught in a new service-learning program, exploring how the arts spark social change: In 2010 Mackowski accepted an assistant professor position in the English department at Cornell University. In 2013 she was promoted to an associate professorship with tenure, teaching creative writing. She has since retired from teaching. Mackowski has also been an editor at Reconfigurations, and her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner and The Antioch Review. Her poem, "When I was a dinosaur", was listed in The Best American Poetry 2007; "Boarding: Hamaris thysbe", by Mackowski, was listed in The Best American Poetry 2009.

• "Bad Annunciation", Slate, Sept. 4, 2007 * * * *

* • David Wagoner, David Lehman, eds. "Boarding: Hemaris thysbe", The Best American Poetry 2009, Simon & Schuster, • David Yezzi, ed. Five Poems. The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets, OUP/Swallow Press, 2009,

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