Joanne Mallari is a Filipino-American, Reno-based poet. She earned a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Nevada, Reno, and currently works at Upward Bound, a federally funded college preparatory program that serves first-generation and low-income students. She is a contributing writer for bookinwithsunny.com, and she is at work on her first collection of poems, Daughter Tongue. Mallari is the 2019 Nevada Humanities Poet-In-Residence.