Faculty
Fred Marchant
 Fred Marchant, a former acquistions editor from Graywolf Press, is editor of the newly released, Another World Instead: The Early Poems of William Stafford, 1937-1947, from Graywolf Press. He is also the author of three books of poetry: Tipping Point, winner of the 1993 Washington Prize from The Word Works, Full Moon Boat, (Graywolf Press, 2000) and House on Water, House in Air: New and
Selected Poems, (Dedalus Press (Dublin, Ireland), 2002). A fourth collection, The Looking House, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press.
Dr. Marchant is also the co-translator (with Nguyen Ba Chung) of From a Corner of My
Yard, a collection of poetry by the contemporary Vietnamese poet Tran Dang Khoa. Dr. Marchant teaches at Suffolk University, in Boston, Massachusetts, where he is Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program as well as the founder of the Suffolk University
Poetry Center. He has been a recipient of fellowships from the Ucross Foundation, the Yaddo Foundation, and the McDowell
Colony.
Jeffrey Levine
 Jeffrey Levine is Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Tupelo Press, an award-winning independent literary press that he founded in 1999 with new offices in the Eclipse Mill Loft at North Adams, Massachusetts. Tupelo Press annually publishes approximately 12 –14 volumes of poetry, literary prose and belles lettres. Mr. Levine has authored two full-length books of poetry. His first, Mortal, Everlasting won the 2001 Transcontinental Poetry Award from Pavement Saw Press. Rumor of Cortez, was published by Red Hen Press in September and has been nominated for a 2005 LA Times Literary Award in Poetry.
He has also won the Larry Levis Prize from The Missouri Review, North American Review's James Hearst Poetry Prize, the Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, the Kestrel Poetry Prize, and most recently, the 2007 American Literary Review Poetry Prize. His work has appeared in Ploughshares, Agni, Harvard Review, Antioch Review, Barrow Street, American Letters & Commentary, Virginia Quarterly Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry International, Quarterly West, and many other literary journals and magazines.
Susan Kan
 Susan Kan is founder and director of Perugia Press, a nonprofit, independent literary press located in Florence, Massachusetts. "Our aim is to publish poetry that is interesting to longtime readers of poetry and welcoming to new readers. We publish first and second books by women, most recently Beg No Pardon, by Lynne Thompson, which went on to win the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. Our philosophy of one book at time, one poet a year, and one annual prize is proving that keeping a press small is the best way to achieve excellence." Prior to starting the Perugia Press, Susan earned her MFA in creative writing from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
Joan Houlihan
 Joan Houlihan is founder and director of the Concord Poetry Center as well as the Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conferences. She is author of three books, including The Us from Tupeo Press (September, 2009) and The Mending Worm, (2006 winner of the New Issues Press Green Rose Award. Houlihan is also author of a series of essays on contemporary American poetry called the Boston Comment, published online and collected in Hand-Held Executions: Poems & Essays. She is staff reviewer for the Contemporary Poetry Review.
Her work has appeared in many journals and magazines, including Boston Review, Poetry, Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, Gettysburg Review, Poetry International, Fulcrum, Pleiades, Passages North, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Arts, VOLT and has been anthologized in The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries and The Book of Irish-American Poetry--Eighteenth Century to Present (University of Notre Dame Press).
She teaches in Lesley University's low-residency MFA in Creative Writing Program, in Cambridge, Massachusetts and in Columbia University's MFA program in NYC.
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