Joanna Howard is the author of On the Winding Stair (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2009) and In the Colorless Round, a chapbook with artwork by Rikki Ducornet (Noemi Press). Her work has appeared in Conjunctions, Chicago Review, Verse, Unsaid, Quarterly West, American Letters & Commentary, Fourteen Hills, Western Humanities Review, Salt Hill, Tarpaulin Sky and elsewhere. Her stories have been anthologized in PP/FF: AN ANTHOLOGY, Writing Online, and NEW STANDARDS: THE FIRST DECADE OF FICTION AT FOURTEEN HILLS. She has also co-translated, with Brian Evenson, WALLS by Marcel Cohen (Black Square, 2009) and co-translated with Nick Bredie Cows by Frédéric Boyer (forthcoming from Noemi Press). She lives in Providence and teaches at Brown University.