Joan Digby has her B. A. and Ph.D. from New York University and her M.A. from University of Delaware. Professor of English at Long Island University. She has published scholarly work in eighteenth-century studies and undergraduate honors education. Director of Honors at Long Island University, she has edited four editions of Peterson's Guide to Honors Programs and Colleges. She is the author of one book of prose poems, A Sound of Feathers (Red Osier Press) and a study of Two Private Presses on Long Island (Stone House Press and Four Winds Press) as well as co-editor of three trade anthologies of poetry: Permutations, Food for Thought and Inspired by Drink (William Morrow). Her poetry has appeared in numerous magazines. For The Feral Press she had produced: 

• Silverware and Chicken Shit (2006), 8 ½” x 5 ½”, poem with cover by John Digby
• The Old Goat (2006), 8 ½” x 5 ½”, poem with cover by John Digby.
• A Clowder of Cats  (2005, revised 2007), 8 ½” x 5 ½”, 14 poems with cover and  6 photographs by the author and two spot illustrations by John Digby
• Ode to Ma and Other Poems (2005), 8 ½” x 5 ½”, 13 poems with cover and 4 photography from family archive.
• Marks on the Surface: tennis poems  (2002, 2^nd edition 2006), 8 ½” x 5 ½”, 11 poems
• Thrift Shop Donation (Spring 2007), 8 ½” x 5 ½” poem with cover photo by the author
• Camels and other Mammals (Winter 2008)    8 ½” x 5 ½” ten poems with photos by the author
• The Right Angle (Summer 2009) 4 1/4" x 4 1/2" in envelope. Prose poem. A Poet’s Farthing Card with cover by Sandra Jackman.
• I Rolled Today (Summer 2009), 5 1/2" x 6"writing as Snowball the horse, with three photographs.
• Oystermania CSI (Summer 2009),  8 ½” x 5 ½” non-fiction narrative about a cat that hides in a basement.
• Moon Haiku (February 2010), 4 ½”  x  5 ½” 5 classical Japanese Haiku translated by Joan Digby with cover and 6 illustrations by Tina Seligman.
• Snowball Caught a Bug (February 2010), 8 ½” x 5 ½” children's story about a pony with illustrations by Mollie Eckelberry
• Jerimian D. Syme (April 2010), 8 ½” x 5 ½” critical essay about the artist copiously illustrated with his work.
• East Side West Side (April 2010),  8 ½” x 5 ½” seven New York poems with photography by the author.

Gallery of Work