Workshop Instructor: Joan Houlihan

Joan Houlihan, author of Hand-Held Executions, Poems & Essays, and of The Mending Worm, winner of the Green Rose Award from New Issues Press, is the director of the Concord Poetry Center in Concord, Massachusetts. She is editor-in-chief of Perihelion magazine and senior poetry editor of Del Sol Review, both published at webdelsol.com. Her column on contemporary poetry, Boston Comment, also appears on this site. Her poetry publications include: The Gettysburg Review, Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Poetry International, Harvard Review, Fulcrum, VOLT among others, and her work is anthologized in the Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries (University of Iowa Press, December 2004) and An Anthology of Irish-American Poetry, 18th Century to Present(University of Notre Dame, 2006).

Assistant Instructor: Donna Johnson

Donna Johnson is contest administrator for the Annual Del Sol Press Poetry Award. She is a founding member of the Concord Poetry Center, and a reviewer and poet with work in Birmingham Poetry Review, Café Review, Green Mountains Review, Tulane Review, Two Rivers Review and Web Del Sol’s Del Sol Review and Perihelion. In 1999 Ms. Johnson won the University of Nevada’s Black Rock Press Poetry Broadside Competition and in 2002 received an Honorable Mention in the Two Rivers Poetry Prize contest.

Advisory Poet/Editor: Reginald Shepherd

Reginald Shepherd is the editor of The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries, forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press. His fourth book of poems, Otherhood, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2003. His other books, all published by Pittsburgh, are Some Are Drowning (winner of the 1993 Associated Writing Programs' Award in Poetry); Angel, Interrupted; and Wrong. Winner of a 1993 Nation/"Discovery" Award, Shepherd has received grants from the NEA, the Illinois Arts Council, and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation, among other awards and honors; his work has also appeared in four editions of The Best American Poetry.