Joan Walsh

Joan Walsh (1927–2024) worked at TIME magazine, first as a researcher and later as the chief of the TIME letters department. She also volunteered at a program to combat illiteracy called Time to Read. Walsh was the author of several short stories and the poetry collection Seen and Unseen (CreateSpace, 2015). In 1980, her story “Johnny’s Dying” won the VQR Emily Clark Balch Prize for Fiction.