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Joan Larkin was born on 16 April, 1939 in Massachusetts, United States, is an American poet and playwright. Discover Joan Larkin's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 84 years old?

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Occupation poet, playwright, teacher
Age 84 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 16 April 1939
Birthday 16 April
Birthplace Massachusetts, United States
Nationality United States

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1939

Joan Larkin (born April 16, 1939 in Boston) is an American poet and playwright.

1970

She was active in the small press lesbian feminist publishing explosion in the 1970s, co-founding the independent publishing company Out & Out Books.

She is now in her fourth decade of teaching writing.

The science fiction writer Donald Moffitt was her brother.

Joan Larkin earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at Swarthmore College, a Master of Arts degree in English at the University of Arizona, and a Master of Fine Arts degree in playwriting at Brooklyn College.

Larkin has served on the faculties of Brooklyn College, Sarah Lawrence College, and Goddard College, and as Distinguished Visiting Poet at Columbia College Chicago.

She is a member of the core faculty of the Master of Fine Arts Program in Poetry Writing at Drew University.

In the 1970s, she co-founded the independent small press Out & Out Books and co-edited the anthologies Amazon Poetry and Lesbian Poetry (with Elly Bulkin).

1975

Additional to that, Larkin Co-founded Out & Out Books (1975), a Lesbian Poetry Archive, with her bibliography, "Housework" is located in Brooklyn, NY: Out & Out Books.

1988

In addition, Joan Larkin has received the Lambda Literary Award for poetry twice, in 1988 (for Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time, with Carl Morse) and in 1997 (for Cold River).

1989

In addition to Larkin's Lambda Literary Awards (1989), her awards include fellowships in poetry and playwriting from the Massachusetts Cultural Council (1995), New York Foundation for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts (19787-1988), as well as a Creative Artists public service grant from the New York State Council of the Arts in 1976 and in 1980.

1994

Larkin has also participated in institutions and theater companies as a visiting instructor (poet-in-residence) at West Side YMCA Writers Community in New York for a couple of years (1994-1996).

2000

Her anthology of coming out stories, A Woman Like That, was nominated for a Publishing Triangle award and a Lambda Literary Award for nonfiction in 2000.

She served as poetry editor for the first three years of the queer literary journal Bloom.

She is co-editor, with David Bergman, of the Living Out autobiography series at the University of Wisconsin Press.

2007

Joan Larkin's most recent poetry collection is My Body: New and Selected Poems (Hanging Loose Press, 2007).

Previous books of poetry include Housework, A Long Sound, Sor Juana's Love Poems (translated with Jaime Manrique), and Cold River.

Her writing includes The Hole in the Sheet, a Klezmer musical farce, and two books of daily meditations in the Hazelden recovery series: If You Want What We Have and Glad Day.

The Living, her verse play about AIDS, has been produced at festivals in Boston and New York.

2008

She has also received the Publishing Triangle's 2008 Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry, for her book My Body: New and Selected Poems.

2011

Larkin is the 2011 recipient of the Academy of American Poets Fellowship.

She has also received the Poetry Society of America's 2011 Shelley Memorial Award.

Poet Rigoberto González is co-recipient of the award.