Faculty
Jeffrey Levine
 Jeffrey Levine is Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Tupelo Press, an award-winning independent literary press that he founded in 1999 in Dorset, Vermont, with offices now in North Adams, Massachusetts. Tupelo Press annually publishes approximately 12 –14 volumes of poetry, literary prose and belles lettres. Jeffrey 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 and was 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 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 author of three books, most recently The Us, from Tupelo Press (September, 2009) and The Mending Worm(2006) winner of the New Issues Press Green Rose Award. In 2003 her collection entitled Hand-Held Execution: Poems & Essays was published by Del Sol Press. Her work has appeared in many journals and magazines, including Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Poetry, Harvard Review, Gettysburg Review, Poetry International, Fulcrum, Pleiades, Passages North, VOLT and has been anthologized in The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries (University of Iowa Press) and in The Book of Irish-American Poetry--Eighteenth Century to Present (University of Notre Dame Press).
Joan is founding director of the Concord Poetry Center and of the Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conferences. She teaches in Lesley University's MFA in Creative Writing Low-residency Program in Cambridge, Massachusetts and in Columbia University's MFA program in NYC.
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