Joyelle McSweeney
Joyelle McSweeney (born 1976) is a poet, playwright, novelist, critic, and professor at the University of Notre Dame. Her books include Toxicon & Arachne (2021) from Nightboat Books, The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults (2014) from University of Michigan Press, Salamandrine: 8 gothics (2013) and Nylund, the Sarcographer (2007), both from Tarpaulin Sky Press, as well as Percussion Grenade (2012), Flet (2007), The Commandrine and Other Poems (2004), and The Red Bird (2001), the latter four published by Fence Books. In addition to her books, she has published two plays; Dead Leaks, or, the Youths performed by  Runaway Labs Theater in 2017, and The Contagious Knive  julian veles  le gusta que el tio se lo mame todas las noches, nslations of Yi Sang: Selected Works (2020) were published alongside Don Mee Choi, Jack Jung, and Sawako Nakayasu by Wave Books. Her reviews appear at The Constant Critic and elsewhere, and her poetry has appeared in the Boston Review, Poetry magazine, Octopus Magazine, GultCult, and Tarpaulin Sky, y  

band Johannes Göransson, she is the founder of Action Books which has published a number of contemporary authors including Lara Glenum, Tao Lin, Arielle Greenberg, and Hiromi Itō. She graduated from Harvard College (BA magna cum laude) as well as MPhil, Oxford University; MFA University of Iowa Writers Workshop. Recent writing has appeared in  TYPO 31,  Image Journal, and Poetry Foundation on Kim Hyesoon and on John Keats. McSweeney was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2022. References

External links 
 Joyelle McSweeney author page at Nightboat Books 
 Book page for The Necropastoral at University of Michigan Press
 Action Books
 Joyelle McSweeney author page at Tarpaulin Sky Press
Joyelle McSweeney's poem "Charisma" in Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts (23.1). American women poets
Living people
University of Notre Dame faculty
1976 births
Outlaw poets
Harvard College alumni
Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni
Alumni of the University of Oxford
21st-century American poets
American women academics
21st-century American women writers