Joy Manesiotis

poet editor teacher

Joy Manesiotis | poet editor teacher

Joy Manesiotis | poet editor teacher

Joy Manesiotis is the author of three collections of poems, A Short History of Anger, chosen by Brenda Hillman for The New Measure Poetry Prize (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press), Revoke (Airlie Press), and They Sing to Her Bones, which won the New Issues Poetry Prize.

Recently, she has staged A Short History of Anger: A Hybrid Work of Poetry & Theatre—comprised of a Speaker and Greek Chorus—at international festivals and universities in the US and Europe. Poems and essays have appeared in literary journals and anthologies, including The American Poetry Review, Poetry, Massachusetts Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Poetry International, as well as in translation, in the Romanian journal, Scrisul Romanesc.

Manesiotis has received fellowships and residencies from New York Foundation for the Arts, the Graves Award, and Ragdale Foundation and her poems were dropped over Nicosia, Cyprus as part of Spring Poetry Rain, an international cultural event to help foster peace in the last divided city in Europe.

She is the Edith R. White Distinguished Professor Emerita in Creative Writing, University of Redlands, California.