About/Contact
JoeAnn Hart is the author of the novel Arroyo Circle, released by Green Writers Press in October 2024. Other books include the prize-winning environmental fiction collection Highwire Act & Other Tales of Survival, the crime memoir Stamford ’76: A True Story of Murder, Corruption, Race, and Feminism in the 1970s, as well as Float, a dark comedy about plastics, and Addled, a social satire. Her short fiction and essays have been widely published, appearing in Slate.com, Orion, The Hopper, Prairie Schooner, Terrain.org, and many others. Her work explores the relationship between humans, their environments, and the more-than-human world.
Panels and Presentations
“Arroyo Circle,” WLA panelist, Collective Atmospheres, ASLE 2025 Conference, July 2025
Newburyport Literary Festival, The Ins and Outs of Indie Publishing, panelist, April 2025
Narrative Conference, Florida International University, “The Non-Human World and Climate Emergencies in Fiction, Climate fiction writers discuss their work,” panelist, April 2025
Plein Air Writing Workshop leader, “It Was a Dark & Stormy Night,” sponsored by The Sawyer Free Library and the Gloucester Writers Center, March 2025
Fall for the Book Festival, Fairfax VA, panelist, “Exploring Climate Change Through Fiction,” October 2024
Youngstown Lit!, Youngstown, Ohio, presenter, “There is Life Outside of the Big Five; Publishing With Small & Academic Presses,” October 2024
Salem Literary Festival, “Life in Small Doses: Short Stories Reflecting Change,” September 2024,
Science Meets Art Festival, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, presenter, July 2024
“Water’s Rising, Festival of New Climate Action Plays,” Gloucester Stage Company, panelist, May 2024
“Survival: Cliffhangers & Fatal Twists,” Literary Cape Ann, panelist, March 2024
Lecturer, Disturbed Earth program, Stamford ’76, Bartlett Arboretum, Feb. 2020
Panelist, Boston Book Festival, Stamford ’76,Oct. 2019
Moderator, Dogtown Writers Festival, Finding Words in Place, Sept. 2019
Presenter, EASLCE Conference 2018, University of Wurzburg, Germany
Panelist, Writers Resist/Persist, Boston Public Library, June, 2018
Presenter, International Literature Festival Berlin, Germany, 2017, Presenter as a part of ”Reading the Currents. Stories from the 21st Century Sea,“ presentation of Float and a commissioned story.
Panelist, Activism and Writing, Bluestocking Books, NYC, October, 2017
Speaker, Boston Greenfest, A Plastic Ocean, August 2017
Judge, Siskiyou Environmental Prize for Literature, 2017
Panelist, ASLE, Watery Encounters, Moscow, Idaho, June 2015
Panelist, AWP, The Greening of Literature, March 2014
Residencies
Wildacres Retreat, Little Switzerland, NC, April 2025
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Celia & Wally Gilbert Artist-in-Residence, January 2024
Prospect Street, Bennington Vermont, 2022, 2025
Turkeyland Cove, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, 2016
Dorland Mountain Arts Colony resident, Temecula, California, 2012, 2021
Awards
The Hudson Prize 2022, Highwire Act & Other Tales of Survival
“Arroyo Circle Excerpt,” Winner Novel Slices, Spring 2021
Stamford ’76, finalist for the 2019 CDS (Center for Documentary Studies) Documentary Essay Prize in Writing, 2019
Float, Rubery Award in Fiction, 2014
Addled, PEN New England Discovery Award in Fiction, March 2004
Public Service
Gloucester Writers Center, board member, 2012 to 2017, 2024 to present
Town Green Committee, Advisory Board
Gloucester 400th Literary Arts Committee, Chair, current
Gloucester High School College Essay Program, Coordinator, 2008 to present
Cape Ann Farmers Market, Advisory Board, 2009 to 2021
Contact JoeAnn
For speaking engagements, panels, book groups by Zoom or live north of Boston, or just to say hello! I’d love to hear from you.