Carey Salerno, Executive Director
author of Shelter
Carey Salerno has an MFA from New England College. Her poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and have appeared in Rattle and Natural Bridge. She lives with her husband and dog in Farmington, Maine. To hear Carey read her poems, click here (From the Fishhouse website).

Peter Waldor, President
author of Door to a Noisy Room
Peter Waldor’s poems have been published (or are forthcoming) in many magazines, such as The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares and The Iowa Review. Waldor lives in northern New Jersey with his wife and three children, where he works in the insurance business.

Idra Novey, Vice President
author of The Next Country
Idra Novey's chapbook of poems was selected by Carolyn Forche for a 2005 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Her poems have also appeared in Slate, Paris Review, Ploughshares, and Agni. She received a PEN Translation Fund Award for her translation of The Clean Shirt of It, by Brazilian poet Paulo Henriques Britto (BOA Editions, 2007, Lannan Translation Series). She currently teaches at Columbia University and in the Bard College Prison Initiative.

Mihaela Moscaliuc, Treasurer
author of Father Dirt
Born and raised in Romania, Mihaela Moscaliuc came to the United States in 1996 to complete graduate work in American literature. Her poems, reviews, translations, and articles have appeared in The Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, New Letters, Poetry International, Arts & Letters, Pleiades, and Soundings. She teaches at Monmouth University and lives in Ocean, New Jersey.

Daniel Johnson, Clerk
author of How to Catch a Falling Knife
Daniel Johnson was born in Salem, Ohio. His poetry has appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies including Best American Poetry 2007, The Iowa Review, American Letters & Commentary and I Have My Own Song for It: Modern Poems of Ohio. Johnson is the founding director of 826 Boston and, for over a decade, has taught writing in public schools, hospitals, and prisons. He lives with his wife in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Catherine Barnett
author of Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced
Catherine Barnett's first collection, Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced, won the 2003 Beatrice Hawley Award, the 2004 Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, and a 2005 Pushcart Prize. The recipient of a 2004 Whiting Writers' Award, she teaches creative writing at NYU and lives in New York City.

Anne Marie Macari
author of Gloryland
Anne Marie Macari's first book, Ivory Cradle, won the APR/Honickman first book prize in 2000. Her poems have been published in many magazines, such as TriQuarterly, The American Poetry Review, Five Points, and The Iowa Review. Macari is on the core faculty of the New England College low residency MFA program. To hear Anne Marie read her poems, click here (From the Fishhouse website).

Ellen Doré Watson
author of Ladder Music and We Live In Bodies
Director of the Poetry Center at Smith College, Ellen Doré Watson is the author of a chapbook, Broken Railings, and the translator of eleven books from Brazilian Portuguese. She serves as Poetry Editor and Translation Editor of The Massachusetts Review. Watson’s poems have appeared widely in journals, including The American Poetry Review and The New Yorker. Among her awards and honors are the Bullis-Kizer Prize from Poetry Northwest, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship. Library Journal named her one of “24 Poets for the 21st Century.”

Jean-Paul Pecqueur
author of The Case Against Happiness
Jean-Paul Pecqueur’s poems and critical reviews have appeared widely in journals such as American Letters & Commentary, Arts and Letters, Rain Taxi, River City, Quarterly West, and ZYZZYVA. He is a graduate of the University of Washington’s creative writing program where he was the winner of the Academy of American Poets Harold Taylor Prize. He currently lives in Brooklyn where he teaches Literary and Critical Studies at the Pratt Institute and English at the City University of New York.

Bill Rasmovicz
author of The World in Place of Itself
Bill Rasmovicz is a graduate of the Masters of Fine Arts in Writing Program at Vermont College and Temple University School of Pharmacy. His poetry has appeared in Mid-American Review, Gulf Coast, Terra Incognita, Nimrod, Hunger Mountain, Third Coast, Puerto Del Sol, Comstock Review, Poetry Miscellany, The Café Review and other magazines. He lives in New York City.

Ann Killough
author of Beloved Idea
Ann Killough’s work has appeared in Fence, Field, Mudfish, Poetry Ireland, Salamander, Sentence and elsewhere. Her chapbook Sinners in the Hands: Selections from the Catalog received the 2003 Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize from Texas Review Press. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, where she is one of the coordinators of the Brookline Poetry Series, as well as of the Mouthful reading series in Cambridge.

Joanna Fuhrman
author of Pageant
Joanna Fuhrman is the author of three previous poetry collections and her poems have appeared in anthologies published by HarperCollins, Hanging Loose, NYU, Carnegie Mellon and Soft Skull Press. She teaches creative writing at Rutgers University and in public schools and libraries through Poets House and Teachers & Writers Collaborative. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the playwright Robert Kerr.