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...
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Annie Lindenberg
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 Grossman
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 Keogh
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
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...
Kaitlin McGuire
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
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
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
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'...
Jade Sylvan
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Regie Gibson
Regie Gibson is a poet, songwriter, author, workshop facilitator, and educator. He has performed at The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Field Museum of Natural History, and many other venues. Gibson is widely published in...
heather hughes
heather hughes hangs her heart in Somerville and Miami. Poems recently appear or are forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Queen Mob's Tea House,and Vinyl Poetry,among other journals. She MLA-ed in foreign literature at Harvard University...
Jacquelyn Malone
Jackie worked as Senior Web Writer/ Editor at IBM and Lotus Development Corp., taught both technical and scientific writing and editing at Northeastern, and writes poetry. She has won a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship Grant in Poetry, is the author of a...
Lauren McCormick
Lauren McCormick hails from a small town in North Carolina with more rolling hills than people. She holds an MA in English/Creative Writing - Poetry from SNHU and a BA in Ancient Greek Language and Literature from UNCG. While she is obsessed with ancient poetry, she...
Sam Kiss
Sam Kiss is a poet and essayist currently pursuing a degree in Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College, as well as a minor in Nonprofit Communications. He is passionate about the intersection between social justice, community building, and the arts....
Lip Manegio
Lip Manegio (they/them) is a Pushcart-nominated writer, organizer, & cryptid who is learning to be unapologetically in love with life. They are currently pursuing a BFA in creative writing with a minor in art history at Emerson College, where they also serve as...