Joy E. Stocke is founder and Editor in Chief of the online magazine, Wild River Review. She has published fiction, nonfiction and poetry, and has
written about and lectured widely on her travels in Greece and Turkey,
as well as religion, ancient and modern. She is the author of a
bi-lingual book of poems, Cave of the Bear, translated into Greek by Lili Bita; and a novel, Ugly Cookies, co-written with Fran Metzman.
She is author of the memoir Anatolian Days and Nights: A Love Affair with Turkey, Land of Dervishes, Goddesses and Saints, co-written with Angie Brenner will be published in March 2012 by Wild River Books. Her essay - Turkish American Food - will appear in the 2nd edition of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America.
An experienced editor, Stocke works with many of the
writers who appear in the pages of Wild River Review, as well as clients
from around the world. She has interviewed Nobel Prizewinners Orhan Pamuk
and Muhammud Yunus, Pulitzer Prizewinner Paul Muldoon, Roshi Joan
Halifax, anthropologist and expert on end of life care; Ivonne Baki,
President of the Andean Parliament; and Templeton Prizewinner Freeman
Dyson among others. She is currently working with Harriet Mayor
Fulbright, widow of Senator J. William Fulbright and President of
Harriet Fulbright College, on Mrs. Fulbright's memoir.
She is on the board of
the Princeton Middle East Society , and a member of the Turkish Women's International Network.
A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, with a
Bachelor of Science in Broadcast Journalism, she participated in the
Lindisfarne Symposium on The Evolution of Consciousness with cultural philosopher, poet and historian, William Irwin Thompson. In 2009, she became a Lindisfarne Fellow.
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