Joan Bransfield Graham

Joan Bransfield Graham is an award-winning poet who can’t stop writing poetry. Her poems have been featured in anthologies, magazines, textbooks, and on CDs. Her books SPLISH SPLASH and FLICKER FLASH—shape poems about water and light—were both chosen as School Library Journal Best Books of the Year, among many other honors. Her book THE POEM THAT WILL NOT END: Fun with Poetic Forms and Voices is a NCTE Notable Poetry Book, winner of the Myra Cohn Livingston Poetry Award, and recipient of a Eureka! Silver Award for Excellence in Nonfiction. Her poetry has been described as “ingenious,” “refreshing,” and “wonderfully evocative.” A former teacher, an avid photographer, and a world traveler, she lives near Los Angeles, California.