Joanna Klink is an American poet. She was born in Iowa City, Iowa. She received an M.F.A. in Poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a Ph.D. in Humanities from Johns Hopkins University. She was the Briggs-Copeland Poet at Harvard University and for many years taught in the Creative Writing Program at The University of Montana.^[1] She currently teaches at UT Austin's Michener Center for Writers.^[2] Her most recent book, The Nightfields, was published July 7, 2020 by Penguin.

Publications

• They Are Sleeping (University of Georgia Press, 2000)
• Circadian (Penguin Books, 2007)
• Raptus (Penguin Books, 2010)
• Excerpts from a Secret Prophecy (Penguin Books, 2015)
• The Nightfields (Penguin Books, 2020)

Honors and awards

• Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award (2003) ^[3]
• Briggs-Copeland Poet, Harvard University (2008-2011)
• Jeannette Haien Ballard Writer's Award (2012)
• Civitella Ranieri (2012, 2017)
• American Academy of Arts and Letters (2013)
• Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship (2018)
• The Bogliasco Foundation (2018)
• John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2019)^[4]