Joani Reese is from North Texas, USA and author of poetry chapbooks Final Notes and Dead Letters. Night Chorus is Reese’s full-length collection. Reese was poetry editor for THIS Magazine and Connotation Press-An Online Artifact, and fiction guest editor for Scissors and Spackle. Reese won the 1st Patricia McFarland Memorial Prize for flash fiction, The Graduate School Creative Writing Award from The University of Memphis, and the Glass Woman Prize for flash fiction. Reese recently won the 2025 New Zealand National Flash Fiction Day Micro Madness contest at Flash Frontier. She also curates the yearly AWP offsite underground reading series Hot Pillow.