Jo Angela Edwins

Jo Angela Edwins has published poems in over 100 journals and anthologies, including The Hollins Critic, Calyx, descant, and New South. She is the author of the collection A Dangerous Heaven (2023, Gnashing Teeth Publishing) and the chapbooks Bitten (forthcoming 2024, dancing girl press) and Play (2016, Finishing Line Press). 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. A native South Carolinian, she lives in Florence, where she teaches at Francis Marion University and serves as the first poet laureate of the Pee Dee region of South Carolina.