Development Intern Camryn Morrow (she/her) is an M.Ed. Candidate at Harvard University GraduateSchool of Education studying Human Development with interests in liberatoryeducation, culturally responsive social and emotional learning, and community-drivenstorytelling....
Events & Communications Coordinator Northeastern Co-op Emily O’Brien (she/her) is a second year at Northeastern University. She in is pursuit of a Bachelor of Arts in English and Journalism. Born and raised in Massachusetts, Emily has been writing her whole life....
Design Intern Veronica is an artist who currently goes to Montserrat College of Art. For the majority of her time in college, Veronica focused on her studies to become an art teacher, but she later discovered a new love for painting and began to develop her artistic...
SCI AmeriCorps Member Ruby Xiao Rosenwasser (she/her) is a multimedia artist from Boston who creates visuals that blend writing, photography, and filmmaking. Ruby graduated from Quinnipiac University in 2021, where she studied film and communications and wrote a...
Development Intern Kristyna is a graduate of Boston University's College of Communication class of 2019, with a Bachelor of Science in Film and Television and a minor in Psychology. She has been a digital photographer for the past 10 years, focused on arts &...
Events Assistant Carolina Alcantara is a writer and actress from Boston, Massachusetts. Carolina recently graduated from Emerson College in the class of 2022, where she studied the Business of Creative Enterprise and Creative Writing. She mainly focuses on poetry,...
Marketing Intern Joseph Bova is a writer and senior student studying Creative Writing at Salem State University, class of 2023. He is a founding leader of the SSU Writers’ Group, as well as the Co-Vice President for Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society. Joseph...
Events & Communications Coordinator Northeastern Co-op Victor Hugo Mendevil is a poet and graduate student in Northeastern University’s Master of Arts in English program. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing with High Distinction from Hofstra University and a BA in...
Sharon Castang is an undergraduate student double-majoring in English and Psychology at Oakwood University. Born and raised in Michigan, Sharon’s love for literary arts and language began in middle school. When she moved to Massachusetts during high school, she grew...
Andrew Cherif is currently an undergraduate Political Science and Philosophy major at Northeastern University. Born in Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire, Andrew lived in sub–Saharan West Africa before moving to Baltimore, Maryland where his family now resides. He is involved...
We're excited to introduce our newest team member Peter Wilkins. Peter will be joining us as a Community Programming intern from the College of Social Innovation.Peter is currently an undergraduate student at the University of Vermont, where he is studying...
Dr. Andrew Hoffman has published poetry, fiction, literary criticism, and nonfiction and is best-known for his Pulitzer-nominated biography INVENTING MARK TWAIN. A serial entrepreneur, mostly in educational technology, he is also a member of the Producers Guild of...
Iris Zheng is a student at Boston University studying English in the dual bachelor’s/master’s degree program. Her research interests include Romantic poetry and thought, Victorian studies, and intersections of law and narrative. In her free time she enjoys hiking and...
Manal Ahmed is a writer from Karachi, Pakistan. She recently graduated from Clark University where she studied English and Creative Writing. She writes short fiction, loves poetry, and is obsessed with alliteration. Her work has appeared in Dhoop Journal and...
Jessica has been writing poetry since she was about seven, but became more serious about it during her first semester of college. Jessica is graduating with a BA in English with a concentration in Creative Writing from Salem State University in December 2014. She is...
Gabby worked at Mass Poetry as a Programs Intern for a year and then as the Programs Assistant. Gabby recently graduated from Emerson College with a BFA in Writing, Literature & Publishing. Her fiction has been published in a few different on campus publications and...
Jennifer assisted with the many tasks of our Program Director for the Summer of 2014. She is a Poetry MFA student at Emerson College and a course instructor in the emersonWRITES program. She is also a reader for Redivider, a waitress, and a seller of the clothes she...
Katherine Lavoie was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. She is an undergraduate English major at Worcester State University. With a concentration in writing, she hopes to become a published author in the near future. She has an avid interest in contemporary poetry and...
While Kaitlin worked as a social media and outreach intern with MassPoetry, she was also pursuing a BFA in Writing, Literature, & Publishing from Emerson College. She completed the degree in May 2014, and has since put her skills to work as a publishing intern and...
Amanda McHugh is currently a Senior at Emerson College graduating in May 2018 with a B.F.A in Writing, Literature, and Publishing with a focus in Creative Writing for Fiction, and a minor in Environmental Studies and Science. She hopes to one day be a writer for...
Beth Moore was outreach coordinator, volunteer coordinator, and festival assistant to the wonderful January O’Neil for the 2012 Massachusetts Poetry Festival in Salem. Her poetry has appeared in Pangyrus, and her first work of fiction, The Truth and the Life, was...