Jo Angela Edwins has published poems in various venues including Calyx, Whale Road Review, Rise Up Review, New South, Zone 3, and Adanna. Her chapbook Play was published in 2016. She is a Pushcart Prize, Forward Prize, and Bettering American Poetry nominee and has received awards from Winning Writers, Poetry Super Highway, and the South Carolina Academy of Authors. She lives in Florence, SC, where she serves as the first poet laureate of the Pee Dee region of South Carolina.