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...
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...
John Toothaker hails from the small town of Wakefield, thirty minutes north of Boston. He loves poetry and creating stories. He is currently attending Salem State University to receive his Bachelor's in English. His poem "Believe The Lies" can be seen on Red Skies'...
Annie Lindenberg is a writer and student who was born and raised in the suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 2015 she relocated to Boston to study Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College with a minor in History, which she will graduate with in December...
Josh assisted with various tasks in Summer 2014, including website transition and construction, writing for the web, and donor gift fulfillment. Josh is a junior at Brookline High School, where he is the founding captain of the slam poetry team, and hopes to graduate...
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...
Jade is a multidisciplinary writer, performing artist, and producer best known for the 2013 Write Bloody book Kissing Oscar Wilde and other genre-bending work exploring gender, sexuality, and love. Jade has successfully produced dozens of programs, performances, and...
Emily Duggan writes and performs poetry, comedy, and theater in Boston and Chicago. They are currently a member of improv and experimental theater troupes with the Riot Theater Company in Roslindale, and they have appeared as a featured poet for the Boston Poetry Slam...
Claire Laine is originally from St. Paul, Minnesota, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from Macalester College. She moved to Massachusetts in 2016 to attend Harvard Divinity School, and recently graduated with a Master of Theological Studies in...
Sebastian Alberdi is graduating from Northeastern University in May 2017 with a B.A. in English and a minor in Writing. He is a Californian poet (mostly) based in Boston and the founder/co-editor of pnk prl zine (pnkprl.com). At any given time you could probably find...
Sharon Amuguni is a poet residing in Somerville and is currently attempt to navigate the post-grad life with as much humor and hot tea as possible. She's been published twice in UMass Amherst's Literary journal, Jabberwocky, and once in UMass Amherst's Butterfield...
Don McLagan is an entrepreneur and poet. An innovator of business information services for forty years, he is now retired and advises entrepreneurial CEOs. He writes poetry with the Concord Poetry Center, the Cleaveland House and the Edgartown Poets Collective. Don’s...