FACULTY

Kelin Loe is the author of the chapbook The Motorist (minutesBOOKS). Her work has appeared in Jellyfish, H_NGM_N, and elsewhere. She lives in Northampton with Michael. Read a poem here or here.          

Jaqueline Blair Holt has a background in Eastern philosophy, religion, and arts. She has taught Yoga and creative writing to high-risk youth. Her current writing interests include ‘missing narratives’ of war from women and children, and the role of religion and the arts in conflict resolution and peace processes.

Emily Hunt is the assistant editor of ActionYes.Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Conduit, Shampoo, Sixth Finch, and Soft Spot She has published art in Guernica and Route 9 and exhibited work at A.I.R. Gallery, the Dumbo Arts Center, Washington Square East Galleries, and elsewhere. Read a poem here or here.

JoAnna Novak is the author of Something Real (dancing girl press). Her writing has appeared in Web Conjunctions, Spinning Jenny, La Petite Zine, and elsewhere. She is a founding editor of Tammy & Tim.

Nathaniel Otting volunteers at Flying Object. He is the author of Invisible Ear 5/Supermachine 5 (Cannot Exist) and The Wrong Book (1913 Press). You can read a poem at notnostrums or Everyday Genius.

Jonathan Volk was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and has lived in Chicago, Japan, and Montana. He has work published or forthcoming in Caketrain, Black Warrior Review, DIAGRAM and others. You can find selections of his writings here.

Wendy Xu is the author of the chapbook The Hero Poems (H_NGM_N BKS). Winner of the 2011 Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry, her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Journal, NOO Journal, Columbia Poetry Review, InDigest, and elsewhere. She co-edits iO: A Journal of New American Poetry / iO Books. Read a selection of her work here.

Meredith Broberg is a mixed-media artist working with drawing, printmaking, photography, and book forms. After receiving an MFA from the University of California Berkeley, she spent almost two years in Costa Rica on a Fulbright Fellowship. She moved to the Connecticut Valley in 2000 and now teaches a seminar in Artists' Books at Smith College, a studio course in making books at Hampshire College, and elsewhere. Her prints are included in the collections of the Decordova Art Museum, the Portland Museum of Art, the Smith College Museum of Art, the Boston Public Library, and the Yale Art Gallery.

Arda Collins is the author of It is Daylight, which was awarded the 2008 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, published in 2009 and the May Sarton Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, A Public Space,jubilat,and elsewhere. She is pursuing a PhD in poetry at the University of Denver. Read a poem here or an interview with Collins here.

Andrea Lawlor is editor of the small press Pocket Myths and co-founder of the UMass Small Press Bonanza. She earned an MFA at the Program for Poets & Writersat the University of MassachusettsAmherst.. Recent publications include poems and stories in MiPOesias, OCHO 31, OccuPoetry, the Brooklyn Rail, Route 9, and Encyclopedia, Volume II.

Alix Olson has been an internationally touring spoken word artist for the past fifteen years, performing throughout Europe and the United States. She is the co-author of Burning Down the House and the editor of Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution, and has produced several CD's and books, including the award-winning documentary "Left Lane: On the Road with Alix Olson." Twice headlining HBO's Def Poetry Jam, Alix's work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Time Out, Ms. Magazine, and The Advocate. She has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Barbara Deming Foundation, and OutMusic. Alix is currently pursuing her doctorate degree in Political Theory at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Visit her website here.