Faculty
Martha Rhodes
 Martha Rhodes is the director of Four Way Books, a literary press in New York City and author of three poetry collections: Mother Quiet (Zoo Press, 2004), Perfect Disappearance (winner of The Green Rose Prize, New Issues, 2000), and At the Gate (Provincetown Arts, 1995). She has published widely in magazines and journals including Agni, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, and her work has appeared in such anthologies as Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women, The New American Poets, Last Call, and many others. Ms. Rhodes has taught at Emerson College, New School University, UC at Irvine, and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence and the Warren Wilson MFA Program.
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.
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, 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).
Houlihan is staff reviewer for the Contemporary Poetry Review and she is currently on the faculty of Lesley University's low-residency MFA in Creative Writing Program, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Ellen Doré Watson
Ellen Doré Watson is director of the Poetry Center at Smith College and poetry editor of The Massachusetts Review. She is author of four books of poems, most recently This Sharpening, from Tupelo Press, and Ladder Music, winner of the New England/New York Award from Alice James. Ellen's work has appeared widely in literary journals, including The American Poetry Review, Tin House, and The New Yorker. Among her honors are a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Grant, a Rona Jaffe Writers Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship. In addition to teaching at Smith College, she has for many years led a generative writing group and offered private manuscript consultations.
Ellen currently serves as a member of the editorial board of Alice James Books.
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