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Born and raised in Massachusetts, Joan Houlihan has been a teacher, technical writer, reporter, critic, and editor. Her previous books are Hand-held Executions: Poems & Essays (Del Sol, 2003) and The Mending Worm (New Issues, 2006). In 2004, she founded the Concord Poetry Center, and in 2006 she established the Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference for advanced writers. She is also currently on the faculty of Lesley University’s low-residency M.F.A. in Creative Writing program.Links
"[T]hese people began to inhabit me in some way and I began to wonder about their genesis, background, purpose. And I also began to develop a real sense of tenderness, and worry, and necessity about telling this story."James Kirk Maynard interviews Joan Houlihan about The Us on Black Warrior Review Online
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