About

JoeAnn Hart is the author of a collection of short fiction, Highwire Act & Other Tales of Survival, which won the 2022 Hudson Prize. Publication by Black Lawrence Press is forthcoming in September 2023. Her most recent book is the crime memoir Stamford ’76: A True Story of Murder, Corruption, Race, and Feminism in the 1970s (University of Iowa Press, 2019). Her novels are Float (Ashland Creek Press) a dark comedy about plastics in the ocean, and Addled (Little, Brown) a social satire. Addled was the PEN New England Discovery Award in Fiction in 2004, and Float was presented at the International Literature Festival Berlin in 2017. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in a wide range of literary publications, including the Future Tense column of Slate.com, the anthology Among Animals 3, the anthology Fire & Water: Stories From the Anthropocene, Orion, The Hopper, Prairie Schooner, The Sonora Review, Terrain.org, the anthology Black Lives Have Always Mattered, and others. Her work, which also includes photography and drama, often explores the relationship between humans, their environments, and non-human creatures.

Other Works

  • Stamford '76, A True Story of Murder, Corruption, Race, and Feminism in the 1970s

    2019
  • Float

    2013
  • Addled

    2007

Awards and Recognition

  • The Hudson Prize 2022. Short story collection Highwire Act &Other Tales of Survival, Black Lawrence Press