Janine Joseph Reviews

JANINE JOSEPH was born and raised in the Philippines and Also Southern California.

She is the author of Driving without a Permit (Alice James Books, 2016), champion of this 2014 Kundiman Poetry Prize. Her poems and poems about growing up Outdated in America have appeared in Kenyon Review Online, Best New Year, Greatest American Pie Writing, Zócalo Public Square, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, also everywhere. Her commissioned libretti for the Houston Grand Opera/HGOco comprise What Wings They Were: The Event Of Emeline, “On This Muddy Water”: Voices in the Houston Ship Channel, also From My Mother's Mother. Janine holds an MFA from New York University, and a Ph.D. in the University of Houston, where she was a poetry editor for Gulf Coast. She has taught creative writing together with Writers in the Schools, Community~Word Project, along with the Starworks Foundation. A receiver of a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, an Inprint/Barthelme Fellowship in Poetry, a Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center Fellowship for Collaboration Among the Arts, a PAWA Manuel G. Flores Prize, also a Howard Nemerov Poetry Scholarship, along with an Academy of American Poets prize, Janine is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Oklahoma State University.

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