Joanie Mackowski

Joanie V. Mackowski (born 1963, in Illinois) is an American poet. She has published three volumes of poetry, and her works have won multiple awards. She taught creative writing on the faculty of the English department of Cornell University.

Early life and education Born in Illinois in 1963, Mackowski grew up in Darien, Connecticut.

She completed a B.A. in English at Wesleyan University. At the University of Washington she earned both an M.F.A. in English (Poetry) in 1991, and also an M.A. in English in 1993. She was a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University.

Career In Mackowski's early career, she held adjunct professorships at Seattle Central Community College, from 1995–1996; Roger Williams University, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, from 1997 – 1998; and Stanford University's writing and critical thinking department in 2000.

In 2010 Mackowski accepted an assistant professor position in the English department at Cornell University. In 2013 she was promoted to an associate professorship with tenure, teaching creative writing. She has since retired from teaching.

Mackowski has also been an editor at Reconfigurations, and her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner and The Antioch Review. Her poem, "When I was a dinosaur", was listed in The Best American Poetry 2007; "Boarding: Hamaris thysbe", by Mackowski, was listed in The Best American Poetry 2009.

Awards, honors 2008 Poetry Society of America's Emily Dickinson Award 2003 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, $10,000 award for an emerging "poet of promise." 2000 Rona Jaffe Foundation Grant, Rona Jaffe Foundation 2000 Wallace Stegner Fellowship, Stanford University