Joanne Esser

Joanne Esser: writes poetry and nonfiction in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She has been a teacher of young children for over thirty years. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University and published a chapbook of poems, “I Have Always Wanted Lightning,” with Finishing Line Press in 2012. Her work appears in The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Welter, Into the Void, Temenos, Common Ground Review, and Water ~Stone Review, among others. She has two daughters, and is working on her first children’s book.