CURRENT MEMBERS

Candace R. Curran lives in Shelburne Falls, MA, and is the author of Playing in Wrecks, and a co-author of Bone Cages (with John Hodgen, Doug Anderson, and others), both published by Haley’s Press. Her poems have been published in Meat For Tea, Silkworm, RAWNerVZ , and elsewhere; and anthologized in Writing the Land, Honoring Nature, WTL: Northeast, Poet’s Seat Poetry Silver Anniversary, Compass Roads, and Poems in the Time of Covid. She has won the Poets Seat Contest twice. Candace has organized and participated in word and image collaborations including Four On The Floor, Three On a Tree, INTERFACE I- I0, and Exploded View. She has also served children and adults for many years in both public and school libraries. Candace is partnered with a librarian, and books are an important part of their world.

Amy Gordon's poems have appeared in The Amsterdam Review, Ekphrastic Review, The Massachusetts Review, and other journals. She is the author of two chapbooks: Deep Fahrenheit (Prolific Press) and The Yellow Room (Finishing Line Press). Leaf Town is the winner of the 2023 Slate Roof Press Elyse Wolf Chapbook Prize. Before turning to poetry, she wrote and published numerous books for young readers, most notably The Gorillas of Gill Park and Painting the Rainbow. (Holiday House). She has two grown sons, two grandsons, and two cats. She lives in western Massachusetts and runs an after-school theater program.

Janet MacFadyen is the author of three full-length collections, including State of Grass (Salmon Poetry 2024) and Waiting to Be Born (Dos Madres Press 2017), with a fourth collection, Love Letters to the Wild, forthcoming also from Dos Madres. Honors include a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant, a 7-month Fine Arts Work Center fellowship in Provincetown, and a Cill Rialaig residency in Ireland. Recent work appears in Slant, Persimmon Tree, White Stag, The High Window, Scientific American, Wordpeace, and several Writing the Land anthologies, along with artwork in CALYX. She is Managing Editor of Slate Roof and lives in Franklin County, MA.

Louhi Pohjola was born in Montreal, Canada, to Finnish immigrant parents, and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is the featured artist for 2025 in the Carl Jung Institute of Los Angeles publication, Psychological Perspectives, and is a Pushcart nominee. Her work has appeared or will be forthcoming in SLANT, Seisma, Arc, Kelp, Willawaw, InScribe, and The Ekphrastic Review, among other journals. Cracking Open the Bones was named a finalist in three chapbook competitions in 2024 prior to winning the 2025 Elyse Wolf Prize. Louhi's background has included teaching cell and molecular biology to medical students at Oregon Health and Sciences University, and later, teaching high school in southern Oregon. She is an avid fly-fisherwoman and river rock connoisseur.

Ed Rayher lives in Northfield, MA, making a living as a letterpress printer, typefounder, and publisher of poetry books at Swamp Press. The winner of the 2011 Poets Seat Poetry Contest, he was also the Franklin County Poet Laureate for that year. All We Can Do Is Wait (Slate Roof Press) comes after many years of writing and refining his poems in a peer-run writing critique group he founded decades ago in Northampton. Ed is also a founding member of Slate Roof Press, sports an out of control beard in the winter, and infuses his poems with whimsy and a philosophical quirkiness (he has an MFA in poetry and a PhD in philosophy). One of the 2012 winners of the Hedgerow Books competition, his full-length poetry collection, The Paleontologist's Red Pumps, is forthcoming. Through a grant, Ed recently cast type for the Cherokee alphabet, the first time since the 1800s that type for the Cherokee language has existed.

Lynn Shorter is the author of Singer in the Gray of Jean-Michel, 2020 winner of the Slate Roof Press Chapbook Award/Elyse Wolf Prize.  In SGJM, she draws upon a jazz aesthetic to produce in poetry something akin to an Ornette Coleman solo.  Along with her late partner, Joan Behar, she is the co-founder of Reading the World, a UK based creative writing and performance program for marginalized groups and artists.  She currently works in England at the University of Birmingham as a Teaching Fellow.

Anna M. Warrock's publications include From the Other Room, winner of the first annual Slate Roof Press chapbook contest, and the chapbooks Horizon and Smoke and Stone. Her work appears in the anthology Kiss Me Goodnight, Poems and Stories by Women Who Were Girls When Their Mothers Died, Minnesota Book Award Finalist, for which she also wrote the introduction. Besides appearing in a number of literary and interdisciplinary magazines, such as The Madison Review, Harvard Review, The Sun, Phoebe, and Poiesis, her poems have been set to music, performed at Boston's Hayden Planetarium, and permanently installed in a Boston-area subway station. She has taught poetry in classes for the elderly, high school students, and adult education, and held seminars on understanding grief and loss through poetry. She is currently an MFA candidate in poetry with Vermont College of Fine Arts. She lives Somerville, MA. www.AnnaMWarrock.com

Richard Wollman is the author of Changeable Gods (winner of the Elyse Wolf Prize from Slate Roof Press), Evidence of Things Seen (Sheep Meadow Press), and A Cemetery Affair (Finishing Line Press). An Art of Need, his current manuscript, is about outsider artists and includes ekphrastic poems accompanied by images of the poet’s sculptures. His awards include the Gulf Coast Prize for Poetry, the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award for Poems on the Jewish Experience, and the Firman Houghton Award from the New England Poetry Club. His poems appear in New England Review, Crazyhorse, Prairie Schooner, American Journal of Poetry, Notre Dame Review, and Poet Lore. He is Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Simmons University in Boston and lives in Amesbury, Massachusetts. His poems and artwork may be found at RichardWollman.com.