Joanna Klink is an American

United States

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 poet. Her most recent poetry collection is Raptus (Penguin Books

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, 2010), and her poems have been published in literary journals and magazines including Chicago Review and Boston Review. She was born in Iowa City, Iowa

Iowa City, Iowa

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. She received her M.F.A. in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop

Iowa Writers' Workshop

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, and her Ph.D. in Humanities from Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

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. She has been a member of the poetry faculty at The University of Montana since the fall of 2001, and is currently on leave as the Briggs-Copeland Poet at Harvard University

Harvard University

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