Joanne Godley is a practicing physician, poet, and writer residing in Alexandria, Virginia. Her lyric memoir was a finalist for the Kore Press Memoir contest and received honorable mentions in the Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book contest and the National Woman’s Book Association contest. Three of her poems were published in 50/50 Poems & Translations by Womxn over 50. A flash nonfiction piece appeared in the Kenyon Review Blog. Her poetry chapbook is forthcoming this summer.