JoeAnn Hart is the author of the true crime memoir, Stamford ’76: A True Story of Murder, Corruption, Race, and Feminism in the 1970s (University of Iowa Press, April, 2019), and the novels Float and Addled. Her short fiction, essays, and articles often focus on the relationship between humans and their environments, natural or otherwise. Her work has appeared in a wide variety of publications, including the Boston Globe Magazine, Design New England, Orion, Solstice, and the anthology Black Lives Have Always Mattered. She presented Float, a dark comedy about plastics in the ocean, at the International Literature Festival Berlin 2017 as part of ”Reading the Currents. Stories from the 21st Century Sea.” Non-fiction work was presented at the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (EASLCE) Würzburg 2018. 

Website: www.joeannhart.com

Twitter Username: @JoeAnnH

Publications

• Stamford '76, A True Story of Murder, Corruption, Race, and Feminism in the 1970s , University of Iowa Press (April 15, 2019)
• Float , Ashland Creek Press (March 15, 2013)
• Addled , Little, Brown (May 1, 2007)

Awards

• Reynolds Price Award in Fiction(2016)
• Rubery Book Award for Fiction(2014)
• PEN Discovery Award in Fiction(2004)

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences from Harvard Extension School (June 1997)
• Master of Fine Arts in Writing & Literature from Bennington College (January 2000)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction, Playwriting