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Stuart Peterfreund	Stuart Peterfreund is an English Professor and department chair at Northeastern University in Boston. He has published three books of poetry, as well as some 200 individual poems, and his work has appeared in a half-dozen anthologies. Recently, Peterfreund completed a novel which is currently being circulated. He has also published widely in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, as well as in the field of literature and science. Top of Page
Rodger Martin's  THE BATTLEFIELD GUIDE (Hobblebush: 2010) is his third book of poetry.  He is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, a Council for Basic Education Fellowship, a New Hampshire State Council on the Arts Fellowship in fiction, and the APPALACHIA prize for poetry. His poetry, fiction, and critical work has been published throughout the United States and in China, where he has been anthologized in SELECTED POEMS OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN POETS. As managing editor, THE WORCESTER REVIEW has received both a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a number of Pushcart nominations.     Martin also is the New Hampshire State Director of Poetry Out Loud and teaches journalism at Keene State College. Top of Page	Rodger Martin
Diane Vanaskie Mulligan	Since 2002, Diane Vanaskie Mulligan has been an English teacher at St. John’s High School in Shrewsbury, MA, where she also serves as the director of the Betty Curtis Worcester County Young Writers’ Conference. Her poetry has appeared in English Journal, Her Mark 2008, and The Ballard Street Poetry Journal, among others. In 2010, her poem “Wife’s Tale” was awarded third place in Worcester Magazine’s annual poetry contest. Her chapbook, The Life that’s Right for One is available through lulu.com. She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and earned her master’s degree at Simmons College. She lives in Worcester Diane is Assistant Managing Editor Top of Page
Carle A. Johnson is treasurer of the WCPA and hosts the Worcester Barnes & Noble Bookstore Open Mic and the Sugden Writers Workshop in Spencer. Since1989, he has been an editor of the WCPA's The Worcester Review. He  was the founding editor of the WCPA's Poetry Newsletter in 1979 and has produced and hosted over 100 original TV programs, `Poets-In-Profile', for WCTC-TV, Worcester. He organized the Stanley Kunitz 80th Birthday Festival in 1985 and the 2005 Stanley Kunitz Symposium at Clark University. He was the Executive Director of the Elizabeth Bishop Conference and Poetry Festival, which received the Worcester Telegram & Gazette 1997 Visions 2000 Cultural Enrichment Award as the outstanding cultural event in Worcester for 1997. Carle has studied at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and with poets Sam Cornish and Kathleen Spivack. He has published articles on poets and has lectured on poets and poetry throughout New England. He has had poems in Concrete Wolf, Sahara, and TWR, among others. Top of Page	Carle A. Johnson Photo by BG Thurston
Eugene McCarthy (B. E. McCarthy)	I took my PhD from University of Kansas in 1966, after undergrad study at University of Detroit (Michigan born).  I have taught at Holy Cross College since 1965, teaching chiefly first-year introductory courses in poetry and fiction, and advanced courses in Restoration and 18th century literature, as well as African American literature (occasionally African as well). My interests are in poetry at all levels - thus my connection with the WR--especially methods of teaching it with special attention to prosody and memory work. My publication has been on drama and poetry, with books on Wycherley and Thomas Gray, and essays on Richard Wright and Morrison. My wife, Barbara (who teaches English at WPI), and I have five children. Top of Page
Susan earned an MA in Education in 1989 from Anna Maria College in Paxton, MA and an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College in Swannanoah, NC where she studied with Eleanor Wilner, Robert Wrigley, Ira Sadof, Ed Hirsh and Ellen Bryant Voigt. She has attended The Frost Place on two occassions and was a resident at Dorset House in Vermont last year.  She has been giving poetry readings for many years, worked as a poet-in-the-schools and storyteller for ten years, arranges reading series for other poets and coordinates "Art is Fundamental", a program that brings writers and other artists to the Thomas Prince School. She has been an editor of The Worcester Review for ten years and has worked with students to publish their first books. This year she began a student literary magazine, The Morrigann.  Susan won first place in the Worcester County Poetry Association Contest when Mary Oliver judged. Her work has been published in Deros, Yankee Magazine, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Prarie Schooner, The Worcester Review, Potato Hill, Potpourri and other literary magazines. Top of Page	Susan Roney-O'Brien
Susan "Beth" Sweeney	Susan "Beth" Sweeney took her Ph.D. in modernism, post modernism, and narrative theory from Brown University.  Her book Detecting Texts: The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism was published by University of Pennsylvania Press in 1999.  She also edited Anxious Power: Reading, Writing, and Ambivalence in Narrative by Women published by State University of New York Press, 1993.  In 1984 a chapbook of her poetry Blackbird Airs: Translations from Irish Monastic Lyrics was published by Land of Bridges Press (Providence).  Susan is an Associate Professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross with expertise in Nabokov, detective fiction, and the feminist  narrative Top of Page
Parker Towle was born and raised in Holden, Massachusetts.  His degrees are an AB (English) from Yale University, MD from University of Vermont College of Medicine, and an MFA (in poetry) from Vermont College of Norwich University.  He practiced neurology in the Boston area for 14 years and taught at Harvard Medical School, and for the last 29 years he's practiced in northern New Hampshire and taught at Dartmouth Medical School.  He served on the board of the Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire for 25 years. He's published 185 poems in magazines, and three chapbooks of poems.  His first full length collection of poems, This Weather Is No Womb, came out from Antrim House in 2007.  He edited an anthology of previously unpublished poems of others from Andrew Mountain Press in 2000, and special issues of The Worcester Review on the poets, Frank O'Hara (2001) and Stanley Kunitz (2005). Top of Page	Parker Towle
Linda Warren	Mount Holyoke College graduate Linda Warren receved an MFA from Cornell University. Since 1987, she has published twelve novels for Berkley Books, Harliquin Books, and Batan/Doubleday/Dell.  In addition to her fiction, Warren's poetry has appeared in Diner and TheWorcester Review. As a performance poet, she has presented her work at venues throughout central New England.  She has been a guest commentator for NPR through WFCR in Amherst, Massachusetts, and does technical writing and quality assurance for a Natick, Massachusetts, firm. Top of Page
Schooled in the fine arts, Monica Elefterion keeps busy in her studio and gardens at the Mothership Farm in southern Worcester County, MA. Her day job keeps her involved with promoting travel, tourism, arts and culture throughout Central MA. She is co-founder of the Mind Barn Learning Center and Monica's Garden. Top of Page	Monica Elefterion
Bob Cronin	After a hiatus of a few years, Edward R. (“Bob”) Cronin is happy to be back on the editorial staff of the Worcester Review. Bob is now retired from Mount Wachusett Community College where for many years he taught English Composition, Film History, Science Fiction, and Shakespeare. He still teaches Film part time at Mount Wachusett. Bob has a BA degree from Harvard College and an MA from Northeastern University and is a past President of the Worcester County Poetry Association. He now lives with his wife Barbara in Hubbardston; they have a grown son and daughter and four lovely grand daughters. Top of Page