Joan Dempsey

A graduate of both the MFA in Creative Writing and Post-Graduate Certificate for the Teaching of Creative Writing Programs at Antioch University Los Angeles, Joan Dempsey is a writer and writing teacher. Her work has been published in The Adirondack Review, Alligator Juniper, Plenitude Magazine, Obsidian: Literature of the African Diaspora, The Citron Review and has been aired on National Public Radio. Joan writes and teaches from “The Shed” in New Gloucester, where she’s lived for the past nine years with her partner, Bert, and their two dogs, Logan and Bea, and two cats, Maggie and Little Jack.