Joan Houlihan is the author of HAND-HELD EXECUTIONS, POEMS & ESSAYS and THE MENDING WORM, winner of the Green Rose Award from New Issues Press. She is editor-in-chief of PERIHELION as well as the senior poetry editor of Del Sol Review, both published at webdelsol.com. Her column on contemporary poetry, Boston Comment, also appears on this site. Journal publications include: The Gettysburg Review, Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Poetry International, Harvard Review, and Marlboro Review, among others.

Ms. Houlihan is founding director of Concord Poetry Center in Concord, Massachusetts.