Joan BaranowJoan Baranow is the author of In the "Next Life, Living Apart," and two poetry chapbooks. Her collection, "Reading Szymborska in a Time of Plague," won the 2021 Brick Road Poetry Book Contest. A fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts andmember of the Community of Writers, she founded and teaches in the Low-Residency MFA program in Creative Writing at Dominican University of CA. With her husband David Watts she produced the PBS documentary "Healing Words: Poetry & Medicine." Her feature-length documentary, "The Time We Have," presents an intimate portrait of a teenager facing terminal illness. Read More Read Less