Joan Sauro is the author of five books and over 100 stories, poems,
and arcticles published in national magazines and newspapers. She was awarded
two fellowships in fiction, one from CAPS and the other from the New York
Foundation for the Arts,
In addition to writing, Joan conductswriting programs in schools,
libraries, colleges, private homes, church halls, and places of retreat. And
she loves every minute of it. Her workshops are exciting, profound, and
lavish. One participant named Joan aptly: "She's Emily Dickinson in the body
of Carol Burnett."
from, "Friends"
as published in Critic
What do you do when you know you're fire -- torch everything you
touch? Keep moving so you set small fires and no great big one? Take
yourself off to an Arctic place where you will do less damage and maybe some
good?
Do you make yourself into a blowtorch -- one fine, steady, single,
undeviating flame to solder together the broken pieces of the world? Or do
you bank the coals and pray to God you go down in the night with the whole
bundle of matches struck at once, illuminating the darkness, if only for an
instant?