JoAnn Balingit

JoAnn Balingit is an American poet and nonfiction writer. She is the author of the book Words For House Story, a poetry collection featured in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, a Washington D.C. based Literary Journal.[1] Her two award-winning Chapbooks, Forage and Your Heart and How It Works, explore female identity and Philippine ancestry. More of her published work can be found in anthologies No Place Like Here: Southern Delaware Poetry and Prose and On the Mason Dixon Line: Contemporary Delaware Writers.[2] Balingit is a reporter for Delaware Online, a subsection of The News Journal, and a professor at the University of Delaware where she teaches poetry.[3]

Balingit was the poet laureate of Delaware. She was appointed to the position in 2008 and held the position until 2015.[4]

Biography

Balingit was born in Columbus, Ohio to a German American mother and a Filipino immigrant father. She later moved to Lakeland, Florida, where she was raised. She earned her B.A. in English Literature from University of California, Irvine, went on to complete a M.L.S. from Indiana University and earned her Doctorate in Education from the University of Delaware.[3]

She currently resides in northern Delaware with her two daughters, Savannah and Bahiya.[5]

References
  1. Balingit, JoAnn. "Books Archives - JoAnn Balingit". joannbalingit.org. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
  2. Balingit, JoAnn. "Other Anthologies Archives - JoAnn Balingit". joannbalingit.org. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
  3. Balingit, JoAnn. "Bio - JoAnn Balingit". joannbalingit.org. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
  4. Delaware Division of the Arts - Poet Laureate
  5. Balingit, JoAnn. "Extended Bio - JoAnn Balingit". joannbalingit.org. Retrieved 2018-11-28.


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