Joe-Anne McLaughlin is the author of three collections of poetry including, Jam, published by BOA in 2001. , Along with conducting poetry workshops in The States and Ireland, she has taught writing courses at numerous colleges, most recently at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. She also directs the summer program at The Hayden Carruth Museum Library in upstate N.Y. McLaughlin holds a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Syracuse University and her poetry has been published widely in literary journals and magazines such as Poetry, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review and Southern Poetry Review.