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Joan Houlihan is the author of three books: most recently, The Us (Tupelo Press, 2009) and The Mending Worm (2006) winner of the Green Rose Award from New Issues Press. She is also author of Hand-held Executions: Poems & Essays (2003) and a chapbook, Our New and Smaller Lives (2002).

Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Poetry, Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, Gettysburg Review and in The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries (2005, University of Iowa Press) and The Book of Irish-American Poetry--Eighteenth Century to Present (2007, University of Notre Dame Press).

Houlihan teaches in Columbia University's MFA in Creative Writing Program in New York City and in Lesley University's Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is founder and director of the Concord Poetry Center and of the Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference, both in Massachusetts.