Joan Larkin’s sixth collection of poems, Old Stranger, was published by Alice James Books in 2024. Her previous work includes Cold River, Blue Hanuman, and My Body: New and Selected Poems, recipient of the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award. Joan co-founded Out & Out Books during the 1970s surge in feminist publishing and co-edited the groundbreaking anthologies Amazon Poetry and Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time, among others. A lifelong teacher, she lives in Northern New Jersey.