Joan Larkin (born April 16, 1939 in Boston) is an American poet, playwright, and writing teacher.
She is a member of the core faculty of the Master of Fine Arts Program in Poetry Writing at Drew University.
Larkin was a visiting instructor (poet-in-residence) at West Side YMCA Writers Community in New York from 1994 to 1996.
Her writing includes The Hole in the Sheet, a Klezmer musical farce, and two books of daily meditations in the Hazelden recovery series: If You Want What We Have and Glad Day.
She received the Publishing Triangle's 2008 Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry, for her book My Body: New and Selected Poems.