Joan Roberta Ryan is the author of the poetry collection Dark Ladies & Other Avatars(3: A Taos Press, 2017). Her poems have appeared in numerous reviews, including the Atlanta Review, Nimrod, The Sow’s Ear Review, Spillway, Naugatuck River Review, Ekphrasis, Euphony, Roanoke Review, Calyx, Cold Mountain Review, Off the Coast, Cape Rock, Crab Orchard Review and The Taos International Journal of Poetry. And she is currently working on a collection of poems on the secret Jews of northern New Mexico.