Author Profile

Dr. Etiowo is a Nigerian scholar who lectures full time at Cross River State University of Technology and part time at the University of Calabar in Nigeria. A member of the Reading Association of Nigeria, Etiowo is involved with IRCALC's Poetry [NP] and Literature Journal [JAL] projects as Assistant, and Review, Editor respectively. She is published in local and international journals and also has many book chapters to her credit. Mma and other Poems is her maiden poetry edition. Her second collection of poems, Echoes, is expected soon. Joy Etiowo is married with children.

Poetry for Joy is a discovery of how to carry a creative burden in a few lines or words; the communication and sharing of other dimensions of looking at the world. Her poetry have been written in the market place, in the church, in the bus, anywhere. Some have been written while receiving visitors or even while doing some chores in the kitchen, she says. Etiowo combines the idea of literary entertainment with an appreciation of individuals and institutions who touch not only her life as an individual but all of humanity by extension. And in sharing her appreciation of these people and institutions lies the hope that a sense of responsibility, the seed for a better humanity, may follow.

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