Award-winning poet Joan Kantor lives with her husband in the charming village of Collinsville, Connecticut. Joan's training is in education as well as marriage and family therapy, and she works at Manchester Community College as a counselor/learning disabilities specialist. She actively promotes poetry in the community and is a member of the International Academy for Poetry Therapy. She has been a featured reader for the public television series "Speaking of Poetry" as well as for several art museums; additionally, she leads workshops, has mentored for Poetry Out Loud, and judged and mentored