Joan Swift was the author four collections of poetry including The Tiger Iris, published by BOA in 1999. She was the recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, an Ingram Merrill writing award, a grant from the Washington State Arts Commission, and a  Pushcart Prize. Her poems have been widely published in anthologies and literary journals including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, DoubleTake and American Poetry Review. Joan passed away in 2017.