JOANNA ENGLERT LYONS is the senior marketing and publicity director at Sarabande Books, an internationally-distributed literary press based in Louisville, KY. As a publicist she has represented more than fifty writers, including PEN/Nabokov Award Winner Sandra Cisneros and NYT bestselling author Rosellen Brown, and she has secured reviews in outlets like The New York Times, NPR, The Washington Post, O, The Oprah Magazine, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and more.

Joanna studied at Bellarmine University, Exeter College at the University of Oxford, and the University of Louisville, where she earned her MA in English and also taught Rhetoric and Composition. Joanna is the 2024 recipient of the Emerging Artist Award from the Kentucky Arts Council, and she was a 2023 Artist in Residence of the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in The Pinch, Swing, Neon Door, Miracle Monocle, Jabberwock Review, and elsewhere, and her work has been performed by the professional dance company Louisville Ballet. Her chapbook, Godsnack, was a finalist for the 2024 Cow Creek Chapbook Prize from Pittsburg State University and a semi-finalist for the 2024 Tomaz Salamun Prize and the 2022 CutBank Chapbook Contest. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association (GLIBA).

FORMERLY: Louisville Ballet, University of Louisville English Department, Assumption High School Advancement Department, Bellarmine University