Joanie Mackowski is a poet, teacher, and sometime juggler. Her second book of poems, View from a Temporary Window, was published with the Pitt Poetry Series in February 2010. Her first book, The Zoo, also from the Pitt Poetry Series, won the AWP Award Series in Poetry and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Mackowski has received the Rona Jaffe Foundation Grant and the Wallace Stegner Fellowship. Her poems appear in The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets, edited by David Yezzi, in Best American Poetry 2007, edited by Heather McHugh, and in Best American Poetry 2009, edited by David Wagoner; they've also recently appeared in Poetry, The American Scholar, The New England Review, The Yale Review, Kenyon Review and on Slate.Mackowski was born in 1963 and grew up primarily in Connecticut and in coastal Massachusetts. When she was 21 she drove to California and worked as a journalist, a kitchenware salesperson, an itinerant French translator, and as a juggler. She can juggle five balls, but not very often.She earned her MFA at the University of Washington in Seattle and her PhD at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She teaches with the Creative Writing Program at Cornell University.