Carey Salerno

Executive Director

Carey Salerno is the executive director of Alice James Books. She has an MFA in poetry from New England College. You may find her poems on From the Fishouse and in The Dirty Napkin, Connotations Press, Rattle, and Natural Bridge. She lives with her husband and dog in western Maine.

Peter Waldor

Member

Peter Waldor’s poems have been published (or are forthcoming) in many magazines, such as The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares and The Iowa Review. Waldor lives in northern New Jersey with his wife and three children, where he works in the insurance business.

Catherine Barnett

Member

Catherine Barnett won the 2003 Beatrice Hawley Award for her first collection of poems, Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced, which was published by Alice James Books in May 2004. Her honors include a 2004 Whiting Writers Award, the 2004 Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, a 2005 Pushcart Prize, and a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry. Her work has appeared in The Iowa Review, The Massachusetts Review, Pleiades, Barrow Street, Shenandoah, Interim, The Hat, and The Washington Post. She teaches creative writing at NYU and lives in New York City.

Anne Marie Macari

Alice Emeritus

Anne Marie Macari’s most recent book, She Heads Into the Wilderness, was published by Autumn House Press in 2008. Her book Ivory Cradle won the 2000 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, followed by Gloryland (Alice James Books). Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines such as: The Iowa Review, The American Poetry Review, and TriQuarterly. Macari founded and teaches in the Drew University MFA Program in Poetry & Poetry in Translation. 

Ellen Doré Watson

Alice Emeritus

Ellen Doré Watson directs the Poetry Center at Smith College and serves as poetry editor for The Massachusetts Review. She is the author of four books of poems, including two from Alice James, We Live in Bodies and Ladder Music, winner of the New England/New York Award. Her most recent collection, This Sharpening, was published by Tupelo Press. Individual poems have appeared widely in literary journals, including The American Poetry Review, Tin House, and The New Yorker. She was named by Library Journal one of “24 Poets for the 21st Century.” Among her other honors are a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Grant, a Rona Jaffe Writers Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship. She has translated a dozen books from the Portuguese, including The Alphabet in the Park, the selected poems of Brazilian Adélia Prado (Wesleyan University Press).

Nicole Cooley

President

Nicole Cooley grew up in New Orleans. Her third book of poems, Breach, about Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf Coast, was published by LSU Press in April 2010. Her first book, Resurrection, won the 1995 Walt Whitman Award and was published by LSU Press in 1996. Her second book, The Afflicted Girls (2004), was chosen as one of the best poetry books of the year by Library Journal. She also published a novel, Judy Garland, Ginger Love. She directs the new MFA program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College--City University of New York and lives outside of New York City with her husband and two young daughters.

Laura McCullough

Vice President

Laura McCullough has three other collections of poems, Speech Acts (Black Lawrence Press) What Men Want (XOXOX Press), and The Dancing Bear (Open Book Press), and chapbook of prose poems, Elephant Anger (online at Mudlark). She has been a fellow in both prose and poetry for the NJ State Arts Council and has an MFA in fiction from Goddard College. Her poetry, fiction, reviews, and essays have appeared in places such as The American Poetry Review, The Writer's Chronicle, The Painted Bride Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Guernica, Crab Orchard Review, Pebble Lake Review, Iron Horse Quarterly, The Pedestal, The Potomac, Nimrod, Boulevard, Gulf Coast, Hotel Amerika, and others. She founded the Creative Writing Program at Brookdale Community College in central New Jersey.

Monica A. Hand

Secretary

Monica A. Hand is a poet and book artist currently living in Harlem, USA.  Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Aunt Chloe, Black Renaissance Noire, The Sow’s Ear, Drunken Boat, Beyond the Frontier, African-American Poetry for the 21st Century, Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade and elsewhere.  She holds a MFA in Poetry and Poetry in Translation from Drew University, and is a founding member of Poets for Ayiti.

Matthew Pennock

Treasurer

Matthew Pennock is a graduate of the undergraduate poetry writing program at the University of Virginia and received his MFA from Columbia University. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such literary journals as Western Humanities Review, LIT, Denver Quarterly, New York Quarterly, Love Among the Ruins, Guernica: A Journal of Art and Politics, and American Literary Review, among others. He lives in Manhattan and teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and works at Yeshiva University.

Stephen Motika

Member

Stephen Motika was born in Santa Monica, California. He is the editor of Tiresias: The Collected Poems of Leland Hickman (2009) and the author of the poetry chapbook, Arrival and at Mono (2007). His articles and poems have appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, BOMB, The Brooklyn Review, Eleven Eleven, The Poetry Project Newsletter, among other publications. His collaboration with artist Dianna Frid, “The Field,” was on view at Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois, Chicago, in 2003. A 2010-2011 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Resident, he is the program director at Poets House and the publisher of Nightboat Books.

Tamiko Beyer

Member

Tamiko Beyer spent the first ten years of her life in Tokyo, Japan. She is the author of the chapbook bough breaks (Meritage Press). She received her M.F.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and was awarded a Chancellor’s Fellowship. Beyer is a former Kundiman Fellow, a recipient of a grant from the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund, and a contributing editor to Drunken Boat. She works as the Advocacy Writer at Corporate Accountability International.

Angelo Nikolopoulos

Member

Angelo Nikolopoulos was raised in California and is a graduate of New York University’s creative writing program. His poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2011, Boston Review, Los Angeles Review, New York Quarterly, North American Review, Tin House, and elsewhere. He was the recipient of the 2011 “Discovery”/Boston Review Prize for poetry and has taught creative writing at several institutions, including New York University and Rutgers University. He lives in New York City. 

Suzanne Parker

Member

Suzanne Parker's poems have appeared in Barrow Street, Cimarron Review, Rattapallax, and numerous other journals.  She has also published non-fiction in the travel anthology Something to Declare, edited by Gillian Kendall (University of Wisconsin Press, 2009 ). She is a winner of the Alice M. Sellars Award from the Academy of American Poets, was a Poetry Fellow at the Prague Summer Seminars, and has received fellowships and scholarships from Sarah Lawrence College Summer Writers Seminar, and Prairie Schooner. Suzanne directs the creative writing program at Brookdale Community College and is an editor for MEAD: A Magazine of Literature and Libations.