Joan Kantor

Joan Kantor

Award-winning poet Joan Kantor lives with her husband in the village of Collinsville, Connecticut. Joan was a college counselor and disabilities specialist for many years. She has been a featured reader for the public television series Speaking of Poetry as well as for several art museums and galleries, and she has also been a featured poet in The Avocet Literary Journal. Additionally, she leads workshops, has mentored for Poetry Out Loud, and has judged and mentored for the Hill-Stead Museum’s Sunken Garden Poetry Festival Fresh Voices Poetry Program. To fulfill her inclusive vision of the arts, Joan collaborates with both visual artists and musicians and currently performs in Stringing Words Together, an interactive performance of poetry and violin music. Joan’s work has been widely published in literary journals and her first collection, Shadow Sounds (Antrim House 2010), was a finalist in the Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Awards Contest (2010). She won First Prize for Poetry in The 2013 Hackney Literary Awards Poetry Contest and in 2015 her book, Fading Into Focus, took First Place for Poetry in The 23rd Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards Contest. Her collection, Too Close For Comfort, was published by Aldrich Press in 2016 . She recently completed an ekphrastic project, Her Children, with quilt artist Linda Anderson. Her most recent collection, Fading Into Focus, One Woman’s journey of re-education was an Eric Hoffer Awards finalist She is currently working on her next collection, Dual Impressions, original photos and poems.

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