Joan Houlihan is author of Hand-held Executions, Poems & Essays. She is editor-in-chief of Perihelion and writes a column on contemporary poery called Boston Comment. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in many journals and magazines, including Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, The Gettysburg Review, Poetry International, Fulcrum, Passages North, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Arts, VOLT and was recently anthologized in The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries. She is director of the Concord Poetry Center in Concord, Massachusetts.