About
Joan Roberta Ryan is the author of the poetry collection Dark Ladies & Other Avatars (3: A Taos Press, 2017). Her poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, Nimrod, The Sow’s Ear Review, Spillway, Naugatuck River Review, Ekphrasis, Euphony, Roanoke Review, Calyx, Cold Mountain Review, Off The Coast, Cape Rock, Crab Orchard Review, The Taos International Journal of Poetry and Art, The Prick of the Spindle and other literary journals.
Joan now serves as Poetry Editor of Vasari21. And she is currently working on a collection of poems on the secret Jews of northern New Mexico.
For the past eight years, Joan and her husband Tom have lived in Taos, New Mexico where she indulges her passions for skiing, mushroom hunting, Mediterranean cooking—and above all—reading and writing poetry
Before moving to Taos in 2009, Joan headed her own direct marketing agency where she created magalogs, commercials, and direct mail packages for clients ranging from Dow Jones to Lenox Collections to AOL to Rodale Press. During this time, she also served as President of the Philadelphia Direct Marketing Association.
Joan now serves as Poetry Editor of Vasari21. And she is currently working on a collection of poems on the secret Jews of northern New Mexico.
For the past eight years, Joan and her husband Tom have lived in Taos, New Mexico where she indulges her passions for skiing, mushroom hunting, Mediterranean cooking—and above all—reading and writing poetry
Before moving to Taos in 2009, Joan headed her own direct marketing agency where she created magalogs, commercials, and direct mail packages for clients ranging from Dow Jones to Lenox Collections to AOL to Rodale Press. During this time, she also served as President of the Philadelphia Direct Marketing Association.
