Joan Murray is the author of three books of poetry: Queen of the Mist (Beacon / 6857-8 / $15.00 pb), Looking for the Parade, and The Same Water. General editor of The Best of Pushcart Poetry, due in 2002, and poetry coeditor with Billy Collins of the twenty-fifth-anniversary Pushcart Prize, she is poet-in-residence at the New York State Writers Institute. She lives in Old Chatham, New York.