Because You Have To: A Writing Life
Joan Frank is the author of five books of fiction. Her story collection" In Envy Country "(University of Notre Dame Press, 2010) won the Richard Sullivan Prize in Fiction and "ForeWord Reviews" Book of the Year Award for Short Stories, and was a finalist for the California Book Award. Joan is a MacDowell Colony Fellow, Pushcart Prize nominee, winner of the Dana Award, Michigan Literary Fiction Award, Iowa Writing Award, and Emrys Fiction Award, and recipient of grants from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, Barbara Deming Fund, and Sonoma Arts Council. She lives in northern California.