Joan Alexander Poetry Long Island) and the University

Long Island) and the University of Guelph

capture and slavery to become a pillar of the community in nineteenth-century Owen Sound

to the cozy hearth of the domesticated housecat

I altered not only my person but my sex

Joan Alexander Poetry Long Island) and the UniversityJoan Alexander, author of Lines of Truth and Conversation, was born in Chicago, and moved to Canada in 1979, where she worked as a teacher and a journalist for many years while continuing to study the writing craft. Her work has appeared in a number of Canadian literary journals and has been nominated for the Journey Prize, a National Magazine Award, and Best New American Voices.