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 with offices in Dorset, Vermont, now in the Eclipse Mill 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 in September and has been nominated for a 2005 LA Times Literary Award in Poetry.
He has also won many awards for his poetry, including 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.
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.
Fred Marchant
 Fred Marchant, a former acquistions editor from Graywolf Press, is editor of Another World Instead: The Early Poems of William Stafford, 1937-1947, from Graywolf Press. He 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).
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.
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 three books, most recently, The Us (Tupelo Press). Her other books are: Hand-Held Executions: Poems & Essays (2003) and The Mending Worm, (2006) winner of the New Issues Press Green Rose Award. She is author of a series of essays on contemporary American poetry called the Boston Comment and her work has appeared in many journals and magazines, including Boston Review, Poetry, Gulf Coast, 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 staff reviewer for the Contemporary Poetry Review.
She teaches in Lesley University's low-residency MFA in Creative Writing Program, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Columbia University's MFA prgram in New York.
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