Joan Mazza is an author, speaker, licensed mental health counselor (psychotherapist), writing coach, and certified sex therapist. She has appeared on radio and television as a dream specialist and offers personal growth and writing workshops. Her column on journaling dreams appeared in Personal Journaling Magazine, published by Writer’s Digest Books.

Published Books (Non-fiction)

1. Dreaming Your Real Self: A Personal Approach to Dream Interpretation
   (Perigee, July 1998)
2. Who’s Crazy, Anyway? --Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Risks and Benefits of Psychotherapy, But Didn’t Want to Have to Pay a Therapist to Find Out
   (iUniverse, June 2000)
3. Dream Back Your Life: Transforming Dream Messages into Life Action - A Practical Guide to Dreams, Daydreams, and Fantasies
   (Perigee/PenguinPutnam, July 2000)
4. From Dreams to Discovery
   (Walking Stick Press/Writer’s Digest, Nov. 2000)
5. Things That Tick Me Off
   (Walking Stick Press/Writer’s Digest, Nov. 2000)
6. Exploring Your Sexual Self
   (Walking Stick Press/Writer’s Digest, June 2001)

Essays and Articles

Short Fiction

Poetry

Writer’s Journal, 2^nd place contest winner, June 2000
Messages from the Heart, Spring 1999
Frisson, Spring 1999
Muse of Fire, Oct. 1998
The Oak, Oct. 2000
Möbius, May 1999
George & Mertie’s Place, July 1999
Free Focus, July 2000
Naked Verses (an anthology), July 2000
Transcendent Visions, Spring 2001
Loving More Magazine, Fall 2002
Permafrost, Fall 2002
Write On!! Poetry Magazette, Feb. 2003
Dream Fantasy International #31, 2002-2003
Writer’s Bloc, Spring 2003
Potomac Review, Fall 2003
Voices in Italian Americana, Fall 2003
Erased, Sigh, Sigh, Via Dolorosa Press, Spring 2004
Meridian Anthology, Vol.1, #2, Spring 2004
Confluence, Volume 15, 2004
Red Owl Magazine, Fall 2004
Pegasus, Fall 2004
Bear Creek Haiku, (#58) December, 2004
Pennsylvania English, Fall 2005
The Mid-America Poetry Review, 2005, 2006
The Penwood Review, Spring 2005 & Fall 2006
Editor’s Choice Award, Paterson Literary Review #35, 2006
Slipstream, #26, 2006
Timber Creek Review, Spring 2006
Long Island Quarterly, July 2006
Workers Write Journal, April 2007
Blue Fifth Review, Winter 2007
Semi-finalist, The Sow’s Ear poetry contest
Living Work, Blue Cubicle Press 2007
the minnesota review, Spring 2007
Poetry Society of Virginia, 3rd place winner, 2007
Boston Literary Magazine, Summer 2007
Tupelo Press Poetry Project, June/July 2007
First Place, Skyline Magazine Contest, Aug. 2007
The Hudson Review, 2007
Winter Sky, 2007
The Eloquent Atheist (online) March 2008
Talking River, 2008
Quercus Review, 2008
The Fourth River, Fall 2008