Joy Manesiotis

Joy Manesiotis is a poet, editor, and teacher, and Edith R. White Distinguished Professor Emerita in Creative Writing at the University of Redlands in California. Her poems and essays have appeared in journals such as Poetry and The American Poetry Review. Her collection A Short History of Anger, published by Free Verse Editions at Parlor Press, was a co-winner of the New Measure Poetry Prize and deals with the 1922 destruction of Smyrna. She has also staged it as a hybrid poetry and theatre work with a Greek chorus. Her other books include They Sing to Her Bones, which won the New Issues Poetry Prize, and Revoke, published by Airlie Press in 2023.