Biography

Joan Schadt Biddle was born in Memphis, TN in 1979. After earning her BA in English and French from The University of Texas at Austin, she attended Johns Hopkins where she received an MA in Poetry, and later The New School where she earned an MFA in Poetry. At Johns Hopkins Biddle taught fiction, poetry, acting, and expository writing. Biddle served on the panel “The Poet as Performer: Giving Effective Readings” at the 2006 Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference. She lives in Memphis where she is a freelance writer, editor, and adjunct English instructor at the University of Memphis. In October of 2010 Biddle will teach a class on Poetry and the Sacred at Rhodes College’s Meeman Center for Lifelong Learning.