Joyelle McSweeney (born 1976, Augusta, Georgia) is an American poet, playwright, fiction writer, and theorist known for her apocalyptic, genre-bending, and intellectually radical work. She is the author of numerous books, including Toxicon and Arachne (Nightboat Books, 2020), Salamandrine: 8 Gothics (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2013), and the critical work The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults (University of Michigan Press, 2014). Her poetry blends horror, classical mythology, pop culture, and political critique in a mode she has called the Necropastoral. She co-founded Action Books, a press specializing in international poetry in translation, and is a professor at the University of Notre Dame.