JoAnn Balingit’s poems have most recently appeared in Salt Hill, Pearl, can we have our ball back? and DIAGRAM’s second print anthology (Del Sol Press, 2006). She has received a fellowship from the Delaware Division of the Arts and teaches poetry at The Wellness Community, an organization supporting cancer patients. She is a doctoral candidate in Education at the University of Delaware. Her poetry appears in Smartish Pace, Issue 13. [bio updated 2006]