Joannie Stangeland’s new poetry collection, Into the Rumored Spring, is available from from Ravenna Press. Joannie’s chapbook A Steady Longing for Flight won the Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award, and her chapbook Weathered Steps was published by Rose Alley Press. Her poems have also traveled on Seattle-area buses.

Joannie’s poems have appeared in Valparaiso Poetry Review, Crab Creek Review, Iota, Painted Bride Quarterly, and other publications, as well as in the Rose Alley Press anthologies Limbs of the Pine, Peaks of the Range and Many Trails to the Summit.

Joannie has been a Jack Straw Writer and has taught at Seattle’s Richard Hugo House. By day, she works as a writer at a software technology company.

To contact Joannie, send email to joannieks (at) msn.com