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...
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...
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 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...
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 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...
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...
For 11 years, Joan worked behind the scenes, first to help Mass Poetry launch and then to keep it going. CFO, accountant, bookkeeper, clerk of the works, problem solver, form completer, legal advisor, Joan has attended to all the prose that poets would prefer to...
Sara Siegel is a lifelong writer and crafter based in Somerville. After graduating Washington University in St. Louis and working at women's health organizations in NYC, she moved to Burlington, Vermont to earn a Masters in Public Administration at UVM. While there...
Laurin Macios holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of New Hampshire, where she taught on fellowship for three years. Her work appears in Salamander, Green Mountains Review online, [PANK], Boxcar Poetry Review, The Pinch, Third Wednesday, and elsewhere. She was a...
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....
Amy has served on the Executive Board and in many other leadership roles of Temple Beth Elohim for many years. She also serves on the board of the Commission on Jewish Continuity & Education and previously on CJP’s Adult Learning Steering Committee. She is Chair of...
Aishvarya Arora (she/her/hers) is an Asian American poet and community-based researcher from Queens, New York. She studied English at Tufts University and was awarded the Morton N. Cohen Creative Writing Award. She’s made homes in Boston, Providence, and Delhi, India...
Peter Orlovsky is a graduate student from Binghamton, New York currently living in Lowell, Massachusetts. Peter graduated with honors from the University of Massachusetts Lowell with a degree in Philosophy and Communications and is currently perusing a master’s degree...