Between Earth and Sky is Jo's second poetry chapbook. Her first chapbook Wind River Song was the 1997 winner of the Anabiosis Press Chapbook Contest and received Honorable Mention in the Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook Competition. Her poems have received numerous awards including First Place in the Florida Poetry Contest, Finalist in the American Literary Review Poetry Contest, Finalist in the National Writers Union competition and Second Place in the University of Illinois' New Stone Circle competition. Her poems have been published in Hawaii Pacific Review, Streetlight Magazine, Streetlight Magazine 2017 Anthology, Lingering in the Margins: River City Poets Anthology, Kansas Quarterly, Georgia State University Review, Cream City Review, Richmond Quarterly, Oregon East, New Virginia Review, Florida Review, California Quarterly and other publications. She has taught at Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Richmond and Randolph-Macon College. She also held the position of Poet in the Schools for Richmond Public Schools and Henrico County Schools and she established the creative writing program at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond.
