About Joan Kwon Glass

Joan Kwon Glass is a diasporic Korean American poet, author of the poetry collection DAUGHTER OF THREE GONE KINGDOMS (Perugia Press, 2024)– winner of the 2025 Paterson Poetry Prize, the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Poetry & the IPPY Gold Medal for Poetry & finalist for the Balcones Poetry Prize & the Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize. Her book, NIGHT SWIM, won the 2021 Diode Book Prize.

Joan’s poems have been featured on NPR & in Poetry, The Slowdown, Poetry Daily, Passages North, Poetry Northwest, Korea Quarterly, Best American Poetry, Poem of the Week, Tahoma Literary Review, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Prairie Schooner & elsewhere. She is a 2025 SWWIM writer in residence & has been a guest lecturer or visiting writer at Amherst College, Smith College, Wesleyan University, the New School & elsewhere. Joan has served as a judge for various book awards & prizes & teaches writing workshops at writing centers such as Brooklyn Poets, Poets House, Writing Workshops of Dallas & Hudson Valley Writers Center. She lives near New Haven, CT. 

Order DAUGHTER OF THREE GONE KINGDOMS

WINNER of the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Poetry

the Paterson Poetry Prize

the IPPY Gold Medal for Poetry

& the Perugia Press Poetry Prize

FINALIST for the Balcones Poetry Prize & Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize