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Jeffrey Shotts
 Jeffrey Shotts is Poetry Editor of Graywolf Press, an independent, nonprofit, literary publisher in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Shotts 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).
Jeffrey Levine
 Jeffrey Levine is Poet, 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.
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 managing editor for the Contemporary Poetry Review.
Houlihan teaches in 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 five books of poems, most recently Dogged hearts, from Tupelo Press. 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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