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Faculty
Jeffrey Shotts
 Jeffrey Shotts is Poetry Editor of Graywolf Press. Jeffrey Shotts is currently Senior Editor at Graywolf Press, an independent, nonprofit, literary publisher in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He edits poetry, creative nonfiction, lyric essays, critical essays on literature, literary hybrids, and translations. Over the last eleven years, he has worked with many authors, including American writers Elizabeth Alexander, Charles Baxter, Sven Birkerts, Stephen Burt, Nick Flynn, Tess Gallagher, Dana Gioia, Albert Goldbarth, Linda Gregg, Marilyn Hacker, Donald Hall, Tony Hoagland, Fanny Howe, D.A. Powell, Fred Marchant, Claudia Rankine, and Vijay Seshadri, and international writers Kathleen Jamie, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Pura López-Colomé, Agi Mishol, Don Paterson, Tomas Tranströmer, and Saadi Youssef.
Shotts graduated from Macalester College with majors in Classics and English, and he earned his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at Washington University in Saint Louis, where he studied with poets Mary Jo Bang and Carl Phillips, among others. His essays, poetry, and reviews have appeared in Agni, The Georgia Review, The Journal, Rain Taxi Review, The Writer's Chronicle, and elsewhere.
Shotts has lectured on poetry and publishing at writing programs across the country, including the College of Saint Benedict, Hamline University, the University of Iowa Writers Workshop, The Loft Literary Center, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, the University of Minnesota, the Richard Hugo House, and Washington University in Saint Louis and is currently a visiting instructor at Malacaster College in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is the editor of the poetry included in The Graywolf Silver Anthology (Graywolf Press, 1999).
Henry Israeli
 Henry Israeli is the founder and editor of Saturnalia Books, a small non-profit poetry press that has published established writers such as John Yau, Bill Knott, and Jane Miller, as well as first books by some of today’s most promising poets such as Kathleen Graber (whose work recently appeared in The New Yorker), Sabrina Orah Mark, and Sarah Vap. His own books include winner of the Del Sol Press Poetry Award, Praying to the Black Cat as well as New Messiahs (Four Way Books: 2002), and in translation, Fresco: the Selected Poetry of Luljeta Lleshanaku (New Directions: 2002), and Child of Nature (New Directions: 2010). He has been awarded fellowship grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Canada Council on the Arts, and elsewhere. His poetry and translations have appeared in numerous journals, including Grand Street, American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, Quarterly West, Tin House, Fence, and Verse as well as several anthologies. He teaches English and Creative Writing at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
Joan Houlihan
 Joan Houlihan is author of three books, most recently, The Us. Her other books are: Hand-Held Executions: Poems & Essays and The Mending Worm, winner of the 2005 New Issues Press Green Rose Award. Her fourth collection, Ay, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press in 2013. She is author of a series of critical essays on contemporary American poetry called the Boston Comment and her poems and criticism have appeared in many journals and magazines, including Boston Review, Poetry, Gulf Coast, Pleadies, Harvard Review and Gettysburg Review and 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 is managing editor of the Contemporary Poetry Review.
Houlihan has been a visiting professor at Columbia University and currently teaches at Emerson College in Boston and in Lesley University's low-residency MFA program, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
She is founder and director of the Concord Poetry Center and the Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference.
Fred Marchant
 Fred Marchant, a former acquistions editor from Graywolf Press, is the author of four books of poetry, most recently The Looking House from Graywolf Press. His other books are: 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). He 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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