The FDA highly recommends a daily intake of JoAnne M. Harris (b. 1984). She’s a Powerbar for the Millenial generation! Beyond nutrients vital to a well-balanced blog life, Harris packs a healthy dose of irreverent, often irrelevant (yet self-aware!) silliness. Mmmm. Yum.

JoAnne enjoys backpacking, travel, hot running getup (poly-synthetic tank tops with ipod holders, predominantly), spelling yoghurt the British way, Beerlao, 30 Rock, Barack Obama, Gambling on the only dog running on a track demolished by MONSTER TRUCKS, FiberOne cereal (has 57% of your daily allowance of Fiber in one serving! Brilliant! Girls my age need fiber, not kidding), sort of weird ambiguously veiled fart jokes about fiber, FART JOKES, wordiness, wordsmithing, word creating, Scrabble! (Although her contenders dispute. Often.)

JoAnne once wrote (in a bio for a children’s chorus with which she used to teach) that her musical interests were broad and all-encompassing. Her vocational crisis reached an end on June 4th, 2008 when she watched a sinking-juggernaut Hillary speak at the AIPAC Pro-Israel Lobby Meeting on CNN and her sister started playing Billy Joel’s “Lullaby (Good Night My Angel)” on the piano upstairs and somehow JoAnne thought that the music was coming from CNN and she decided then and there that if CNN ever wanted to merge with Comedy Central, her dream job would be musical supervision for 30-second promo spots because she’d for sure be funny at that.

Until that opportunity comes her way, JoAnne finds herself seeking employment, looking to expand a writing portfolio, as well as a continued quest to make her way in the composition world. Currently JoAnne’s projects include a premiere workshop performance of “Rampers: the Musical” at Concordia Moorhead November 21-23 and an upcoming premiere of “Sunday Anthology”  – a four movement work for voice, cello and piano in New York City corresponding with the inaugural project launching of “Decision Boundaries”- a musical society for the advancement of new chamber works. Dates on Anthology TBA.