Joan Fucillo is an artist and freelance writer and copyeditor. She has exhibited throughout the Northeast, including at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania, the Multi-Media Arts Gallery in SoHo, and a solo exhibition at A.I.R. Gallery in New York City. She received her BA from the University of Vermont and her MFA from Hunter College. Fucillo has also received fellowships from Yaddo and the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta, Canada.