April Ossmann, Executive Director
April is the author of Anxious Music (Four Way Books, 2007). She has published poetry in numerous journals including Prairie Schooner, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Harvard Review and Seneca Review, and is the recipient of several awards for her poetry, including a Prairie Schooner Readers' Choice Award for ten poems published in the Summer 2000 issue of Prairie Schooner. She has taught creative writing and literature courses at Lebanon College and at the University of Maine at Farmington. To hear April 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.

Ann Killough, Vice-President
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.

Bill Rasmovicz, Treasurer
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.

Carey Salerno, Clerk
author of Shelter
Carey Salerno was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She received her Bachelor’s degree in English with a creative writing emphasis at Western Michigan University and her MFA in Poetry from New England College in 2006. Her poems have been nominated for The Pushcart Prize and have appeared in such journals as Rattle and Natural Bridge. She currently works in publishing and lives in Boston, Massachusetts with her husband.

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.

Christina Davis
author of Forth A Raven
Christina Davis received her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and her M.Phil. in Modernist Literature from the University of Oxford. The recipient of several residencies to Yaddo and MacDowell, as well as to the Valparaiso Foundation in Spain, she is currently Associate Director of the NYU Creative Writing Program.

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).

Idra Novey
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.

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.

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.”