Joni Wallace is the author of four books of poetry: LANDSCAPE WITH MISSING RIVER, KINGDOM COME RADIO SHOW (Barrow Street Press, 2016) finalist for the Colorado Prize, the Besmilr Brigham Award, Word Works' Washington Prize, and AROHO's To the Lighthouse Award; Blinking Ephemeral Valentine, (Four Way Books, 2011), winner of the Levis Prize (selected by Mary Jo Bang); Redshift (chapbook)(Kore Press, 2001). She earned her MFA at the Universithy of Montana, and currently lives in Tucson, Arizona.