Jo McDougall lives in Little Rock. She is the author of five books of poetry and the memoir Daddy's Money.

Books by Jo McDougall:

Other poems on the web by Jo McDougall:
Two poems
"Straightpins"
Two poems
"Telling Time"
"Mammogram"

Jo McDougall's Website.

Jo McDougall on Twitter.

About In the Home of the Famous Dead:

"In In the Home of the Famous Dead, we note Jo McDougall's alignment with storytellers, with her ear for dialect and a heart for the cadences and tics of human behavior. She lives in a family tracing back in our literature through Eudora Welty, Robert Frost, and Mark Twain. This collection is a box of jewels, each polished to its own shine. Here even a button or a 'cracked comb' can signify the weight of a whole life, its loves, its crazy amusements, its resident grief. McDougall writes poetry as if language has meaning. It's her gift, brilliant, humane, mournful, and wise. 'Here is a book,' as she writes, 'with all the letters of our names.'"
—David Baker