Jo Angela Edwins
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Jo Angela Edwins is a poet, English professor, animal lover, and avid jokester. She was born and raised in the Augusta, Georgia, area and earned a BA at Augusta University and an MA and PhD at the University of Tennessee. She currently lives in Florence, South Carolina, where she coordinates the creative writing program at Francis Marion University and helps coordinate the annual Pee Dee Fiction and Poetry Festival. Her poems have appeared in various journals and anthologies, including Calyx, New South, The Hollins Critic, Naugatuck River Review, and Zone 3. She is the author of the collection A Dangerous Heaven (Gnashing Teeth Publishing, 2023) and the chapbooks Bitten (dancing girl press, 2025) and Play (Finishing Line Press, 2016). She has received awards from Winning Writers, Poetry Super Highway, the Jasper Project, and the SC Academy of Authors, and is a Pushcart Prize, Forward Prize, Best of the Net, and Bettering American Poetry nominee. The inaugural poet laureate of the Pee Dee region of South Carolina, she has served on the boards of SC Humanities, SC Academy of Authors, and the Poetry Society of South Carolina. When not reading or writing poetry, she dotes on her cats, reads novels, and travels as much as she can.
Website: https://joangelaedwinspoetry.weebly.com/
Winning Entry: This Film Has Been Edited for Content
Contest Won: Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest 2019, Honorable Mention
