About

I started out as a word junkie, sleeping with a blue, linen-covered dictionary under my pillow.  Somehow in dreams, a word would appear that I only had a passive understanding for, so I looked it up. I learned German in similar fashion and, just yesterday, I read the word “autarky” in a New Yorker article describing a female artist and had to grab my trusty dictionary again to learn to use the word.  I am self-sufficient, so I guess I’m an autarky too, though not a nation, along with being a septuagenarian who loves word crafting and writing poetry. 

JoAnna Blaine Easton was born and raised south of Pittsburgh and returns to her home state each year. She resides in Vermont as a writer and cognitive specialist. She studied with Vermont poet, John Engels, was juried into The Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, and received a grant from Vermont Studio Center for Poetry. As a photographer and poet, her work combines the visual with the lyrical.