Joan Wickersham is the author of No Ship Sets Out To Be A Shipwreck, The News from Spain, and The Suicide Index, a National Book Award Finalist.

Her fiction and poetry have appeared in magazines including Agni, One Story, Poetry, Kenyon Review, Boulevard, Glimmer Train, Harvard Review, The Hudson Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, and Story, and her work has been published in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. For the past fifteen years her op-ed column has run regularly in The Boston Globe. She has published essays and reviews in The Los Angeles Times and The International Herald Tribune; and has read her work on National Public Radio’s “On Point” and “Morning Edition.”

Joan has received the Ploughshares Cohen Award for Best Short Story and has been awarded grants by the National Endowment for the Arts, The American-Scandinavian Foundation, The Massachusetts Cultural Council, MacDowell, and Yaddo. She has taught at Harvard, Emerson, the University of Massachusetts (Boston), and the Bennington Writing Seminars. She graduated from Yale with a degree in art history and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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In the course of writing No Ship Sets Out To Be A Shipwreck, Joan collaborated with the photographer Adam Davies to create two online mixed-media shows, for the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA and Scandinavia House in New York, combining audio readings of her poems with Adam’s monumental photographs. One of Adam’s photographs is featured on the cover of No Ship Sets Out To Be A Shipwreck. To see more of his work, go to adamdavies.xyz