Faculty
Jeff Shotts
 Jeffrey Shotts is Poetry Editor of Graywolf Press. He worked in the editorial department at Graywolf Press since 1996, after graduating in Classics and English at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, first as an intern, then as an editorial assistant, then assistant editor, then editor. After taking two years off to complete an M.F.A. in poetry from Washington University in Saint Louis, he returned full-time as poetry editor in 2002. Shotts has published poetry, essays, and reviews in several magazines and literary journals, including Agni, The Georgia Review, The Journal, Rain Taxi, and The Writer's Chronicle. He is currently Advisory Poetry Editor for Post Road, and he is on the advisory board of Project Logos: The Center for Creative Writing at Saint John's University and the Literary Arts Institute at the College of Saint Benedict.
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 offices in Dorset, Vermont. 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.
Jeffrey Levine is the current Artistic Director of the nationally-renowned Sunken Garden Poetry Festival at the Hill-Stead Estate in Farmington, Connecticut.
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 two books: Hand-Held Executions: Poems & Essays (2003) and The Mending Worm, (2006) winner of the New Issues Press Green Rose Award. A third collection, The Us, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press (Fall, 2009). Houlihan is author of a series of essays on contemporary American poetry called the Boston Comment . Her work has appeared in many journals and magazines, including Boston Review, 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).
Houlihan is staff reviewer for the Contemporary Poetry Review and serves
as poetry editor for Del Sol Press. She is currently on the faculty of Lesley University's low-residency MFA in Creative Writing Program, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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.
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