Joanna Fuhrman

Joanna Fuhrman is the author of the poetry collections Freud in Brooklyn (2000); Ugh Ugh Ocean (2003); Moraine (2006); Pageant (2009), winner of the Kinereth Gensler Prize from Alice James Books; The Year of Yellow Butterflies (2015); and To a New Era (2021). She is also the author of the chapbook The Emotive Function (2011). Her poetry is humorous and surreal, mining references from pop and high culture. Writing about Fuhrman’s work for BOMBLOG, Susie DeFord observed that Fuhrman “takes the best of the surrealist and narrative poetry, weaving social and personal stories with extreme wit, imagination.”

For many years Fuhrman taught creative writing in public schools through Teachers & Writers Collaborative. Since 2007, she has been teaching creative writing at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. She has been poetry editor for Boog City and curator of the reading series for the Saint Mark’s Church Poetry Project in New York. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.