Joanna Pearson
Joanna Pearson’s short stories are forthcoming in the Alaska Quarterly Review, Colorado Review, and Kenyon Review online. She is also the author of a book of poetry, Oldest Mortal Myth, winner of the 2012 Donald Justice Prize and the 2014 Towson University Prize for Literature. She is also the author of a young adult novel, The Rites and Wrongs of Janice Wills.
Reading List
The Private Collection
There are stories Marvin likes to tell now that he is rich. When you have everything, sometimes you like to remind people you once had nothing. He believes, maybe, that this imparts a lesson of some sort, to his graduate …