About Joan Kwon Glass

Joan Kwon Glass is a diasporic, mixed race, 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. Her first full-length poetry collection, NIGHT SWIM, won the 2021 Diode Book Prize. She has also published two chapbooks–HOW TO MAKE PANCAKES FOR A DEAD BOY (Small Harbor Publishing, 2022) & IF RUST CAN GROW ON THE MOON (Milk & Cake Press, 2022).

Joan’s poems have been featured on NPR & in Poetry, The Slowdown, Poetry Daily, Passages North, Poetry Northwest, Korea Quarterly, Terrain, Best American Poetry (online), Poem of the Week, Tahoma Literary Review, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Prairie Schooner & elsewhere. She has been awarded residencies at Vermont Studio Center & SWWIM & has been a visiting writer at Amherst College, Wesleyan University, the New School & elsewhere. Joan has been a featured reader at the Brooklyn Poets Poetry Festival, the Boston Book Festival, the Westchester Poetry Festival, the Manhattanville College Poetry Festival & the Emily Dickinson Museum’s Phosphorescence Poetry Reading Series.

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