Faculty
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.
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.
Christina Davis
 Christina Davis is the poetry editor of Nightboat Books and a manuscript reader for Alice James Books. The author of Forth A Raven (2006), her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Jubilat, LIT, The May Anthologies (selected by Ted Hughes), New Republic, Pleiades, and Paris Review.
A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Oxford University, she currently works as the Curator of Poetry at the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University. She divides her time between Boston and New York City.
 No participant will be eligible to enter the manuscript discussed in this conference in any contest connected with the presses represented here (but manuscripts may be submitted during open submissions).
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