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Tree Swenson, President / Executive Director
Tree Swenson is the Executive Director of the Academy of American Poets, which sponsors Poets.org, the web's most comprehensive site devoted to poetry; National Poetry Month, the largest literary celebration in the world; the Poetry Audio Archive, capturing the voices of major American poets for generations to come; American Poet, a biannual literary journal; and numerous awards and prizes for poets. Immediately prior to joining the Academy, Swenson served as Director of Programs for the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Prior to that, she was the Publisher and Executive Director of Copper Canyon Press, which she co-founded in 1972, and where she worked for twenty years to establish a national press that remains dedicated to publishing poetry. |
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Hanna Andrews, Editor, American Poet
Hanna Andrews is a New York native. She holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago and a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. Her poems have appeared in various journals and publications, and she is the co-founder and co-editor of Switchback Books. Her first book, Slope Move, is forthcoming from Coconut Books. |
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Gerard Coletta, Program Intern
Gerard Coletta was born and raised in Massachusetts. He received his B.A. in English at Harvard University. His work has appeared in many journals, including Open City. He is currently pursuing an M.F.A at Columbia University. |
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Alex Dimitrov, Program Coordinator
Alex Dimitrov's first book of poems, Begging For It, is forthcoming from Four Way Books. He is the founder of Wilde Boys, a queer poetry salon in New York City. His poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Boston Review, Yale Review, and Tin House. He frequently writes for Poets & Writers magazine. |
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Eric Engleson, Finance Manager
Eric Engleson has been the financial manager at the Academy since 1993. Prior to joining the Academy, Eric worked as a controller for Berger, Stone & Partners Advertising. He received his M.B.A. in finance (2002) and B.B.A. in accounting (1993) from Baruch College (CUNY). |
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Audrey Ference, Development Officer
Audrey Ference was raised, though not born, in San Antonio, Texas. Before joining the Academy, she worked in development at the Morgan Library and the Regional Plan Association. She has an undergraduate degree in English Literature from Haverford College, and her essays and criticism have appeared in various publications. |
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Beth Harrison, Associate Director / Director of Development
Prior to joining the Academy of American Poets, Beth was the Development Specialist for Literary Publishing at the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses. She has also worked as a development consultant for arts organizations and nonprofit presses and as an editor for Princeton Architectural Press and Oxford University Press. She has a B.A. in English/creative writing and religion from Miami University and is the founding editor of the literary magazine Spinning Jenny. |
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Stacy Lasner, Publicity & Outreach Coordinator
Stacy Lasner is a born-and-bred New Yorker. Before joining the Academy, Stacy was a Publicist at Simon & Schuster, representing books and authors in a variety of genres. She received her Bachelor of Science in Communication at Boston University where she specialized in Public Relations.
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Paul Legault, Multimedia Coordinator
Paul Legault was born in Ontario and raised in Tennessee. He is the author of three books of poetry, The Madeleine Poems (Omnidawn, 2010), The Other Poems (Fence, 2011), and The Emily Dickinson Reader which is forthcoming from McSweeney's in 2012. He co-founded and co-edits the translation press Telephone Books.
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Billy Merrell, Web Developer
Billy Merrell is the author of Talking in the Dark, a poetry memoir (Scholastic, 2003), and a co-editor for The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About LGBTQ and Other Identities (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2006), which received a 2006 Lambda Literary Award. Most recently, he is co-author of Go Ahead, Ask Me (Simon Pulse, 2009). He received his M.F.A. in Poetry from Columbia University. |
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Meghan Nesmith, Executive Assistant
Meghan Nesmith hails from Vancouver, Canada. She holds an M.F.A from American University and a B.A. in English and Theatre from Middlebury College. Before joining the Academy, she worked at the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a co-founder of The Zoo Project, a regional theatre company, and her writing has appeared in Big Lucks and Geist, among other publications. |
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Renee Risher, Program Intern
Renee Risher was born and raised in Southern California and lived in Austin, TX and Seattle, WA before moving to New York City to study
poetry in the Columbia University M.F.A. progam. She received her B.A. in Visual Art from the University of California at San Diego in 2002. She has worked in many artistic media and her installation, Neon Loci, was included in the Lofi Art Festival at Smokefarm near Arlington, WA in August 2009. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including the American Book Review.
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