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Joan Bauer Biography

Joan Bauer makes her home in Darien, Connecticut, with her husband and daughter. She was born in July, 1951, in Oak Park, Illinois, and grew up in River Forest, Illinois, after her parents divorced when she was eight. As a child she was overweight, very tall, and says she felt "a bit like a water buffalo at a tea party."

But Bauer was fortunate to have a mother with a wonderful sense of humor and a grandmother (Nana) who was a professional storyteller. She credits her grandmother with having a strong influence on her writing career by showing her how stories help people understand themselves.

Nana also taught Bauer the difference between derisive laughter that hurts people and laughter that is genuine and affectionate. Her grandmother's stories were all told in first person, which gave Bauer a personal sense of identification with the characters, and...

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Joan Bauer (politician)

American politician

Joan Bauer (born January 21, 1950) is an American politician who served as a member of the Michigan House of Representatives for the 68th district form 2007 to 2012.

Education

Bauer graduated from Western Michigan University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and minors in political science and secondary education.

Career

Bauer was a high school and adult education government teacher and she served as the director of volunteer services at Ingham Regional Medical Center for 21 years. Bauer chaired the Ingham County Women's Commission and served as president of the Michigan Women in Municipal Government from 2004 to 2005.

Lansing City Council

In 1995, Bauer was elected as a member at-large to the Lansing City Council, and re-elected in 1999, and 2003. She served until 2006, when she resigned to run for the Michigan State House of Representatives.

Michigan House of Representatives

Tenure

In her 2006 election to the Michigan House, Bauer defeated first runner-up Jerry Holliste

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Joan E. Bauer

Joan E. Bauer is the author of The Almost Sound of Drowning (Main Street Rag, 2008), The Camera Artist, and Fig Season. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including 5 AM, Pearl, Poet Lore, Quarterly West, Slipstream, and US 1 Worksheets, and in nearly a dozen anthologies, among them Along These Rivers: Poetry and Photography from Pittsburgh;Come Together: Imagine Peace (Bottom Dog Press, 2008); Voices from the Attic; and Only the Sea Keeps: Poetry of the Tsunami (Bayeux Arts and Rupa & Co, 2005), which she co-edited with Judith Robinson and Sankar Roy in 2005. In 2007, her poem Sleepers, won the Earl Birney Poetry Prize from Prism International. For some years, Joan worked as an English teacher and educational counselor. She now divides her time between Venice, CA and Pittsburgh, PA, where she curates the Hemingways Summer Poetry Series, founded by Jimmy Cvetic, with Kristofer Collins. Listen in on the Hemingways Summer Poetry Series archive.

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