Upper Rubber Boot Books

Joanne Merriam

10 December 2011

Photo by Peter Merriam

Joanne Merriam is the owner and publisher of Upper Rubber Boot Books. She was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and lived thereabouts for her first three decades. In 2001, she quit her job as the Executive Assistant of the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia to travel Canada by train, and then parts of the Northeastern and Southern United States. Her first book of poetry, The Glaze from Breaking, was written, in part, about those travels. In 2004, she immigrated to the USA, where she has lived in Kentucky and New Hampshire, and now resides in Nashville, Tennessee.

Joanne Merriam’s poetry and fiction has appeared in dozens of magazines and journals, including The Antigonish Review, Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Fiddlehead, The Furnace Review, Grain, The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, The Mainichi Daily News, Per Contra, Riddle Fence, Room of One’s Own, Strange Horizons and Vallum Contemporary Poetry, as well as in the anthologies Ice: new writing on hockey, To Find Us: Words and Images of Halifax and The Allotment: New Lyric Poets. She most recently edited How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens, and Choose Wisely: 35 Women Up To No Good (with H. L. Nelson).

Visit her at www.joannemerriam.com.

 

Books for Upper Rubber Boot:

The Glaze from Breaking was originally published by the now-defunct UK small press Stride Books in 2005. ISBN 978-1-937794-11-8 (epub) available at Barnes & Noble. ISBN 978-1-937794-09-5 (mobi) available for Kindle on Amazon (BR, CA, DE, ES, FR, IN, IT, JP, UK, USA).

ISBN 978-1-937794-05-7 (epub) available for iPad, Nook, etc. from Barnes & Noble, Goodreads, Kobo and on iTunes (AU, AT, BE, BG, CA, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GR, HU, IE, IT, LV, LT, LU, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, SE, SK, SI, UK, US). ISBN 978-1-937794-03-3 (mobi) available for Kindle on Amazon (BR, CA, DE, ES, FR, IN, IT, JP, UK, USA).

Entry filed under: Poetry. Tags: Joanne Merriam, The Glaze from Breaking.