JoAnn Balingit is an American poet and nonfiction writer. She is the author of the book Words For House Story, a poetry collection featured in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, a Washington D.C. based Literary Journal. Her two award-winning Chapbooks, Forage and Your Heart and How It Works, explore female identity and Philippine ancestry. More of her published work can be found in anthologies No Place Like Here: Southern Delaware Poetry and Prose and On the Mason Dixon Line: Contemporary Delaware Writers. Balingit is a reporter for Delaware Online, a subsection of The News Journal, and a professor at the University of Delaware where she teaches poetry.