Joanne Durham is a retired educator living on the North Carolina coast, with the ocean as her backyard. Her chapbook, On Shifting Shoals, will be published by Kelsay Books in 2022. Her poetry appears or is forthcoming in Poetry East, Third Wednesday, Juniper Poetry Journal, Rise-Up Review, and numerous other journals. Please see https://www.joannedurham.com/ for more about her background, poetry, and awards.