Andrea Selch (President) joined the board in 2001, after the publication of her poetry chapbook, Succory, which was #2 in the Carolina Wren Press poetry chapbook series. She has an MFA from UNC-Greensboro, and a PhD from Duke University, where she taught creative writing from 1999 until 2003. Her poems have been published in Calyx, Equinox, The Greensboro Review, Oyster Boy Review, Luna, The MacGuffin, Prairie Schooner and featured on the Best American Poetry blog. Her full-length collection of poetry, Startling, was published by Turning Point Press in October, 2004, and reissued by Cockeyed Press in 2009. In 2007, Choreo Collective danced her "Holy Shell Waiting for the Return of the Soul," and "Early Weaning" at the biennial symposium of Duke University's Sallie Bingham Center for the Study of Women's History and Culture. She won a 2008 "Hippo" Award from The Monti for her spoken story, "Replacement Child." Her newest collection, Boy Returning Water to the Sea: Koans for Kelly Fearing, was published by Cockeyed Press in 2009. §

Tanya Olson (Vice-President and Treasurer) holds the M.A. in Anglo-Irish Literature from University College, Dublin and a Ph.D. from UNC-Greensboro with a specialization in 20th-Century British Literature. She currently teaches English at Vance-Granville Community College. In addition to her work with CWP, she coordinates Third Fridays in Durham, NC. She is a poet and essayist who has published work in the Urban Hiker, Cairn, Simple Vows, Bad Subjects, and Main Street Rag. In 2002, she was the recipient of an Emerging Artist Grant from the Durham Arts Council. In 2008, she was the winner of a "Hippo" Award from The Monti for her spoken story, "Lemon Pig." §

Judy Dearlove (Board Member) holds a BA in English Literature from Indiana University and an MA and Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Virginia. She has taught writing and literature for more than three decades, including positions as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of Wooster (Ohio) and as a tenured member of the English department at Duke University. She left her tenured position at Duke to pursue a writing career in the computer industry where she was involved in technical writing, market intelligence, management, and corporate communications. In 1997, she left IBM to become Director of the Learning Center at Meredith College. In 2007, she retired from Meredith in order to devote more time to her writing. Her publications include a book entitled Accommodating the Chaos: Samuel Beckett's Nonrelational Art, approximately two dozen works of literary criticism (articles, reviews, and papers), and an assortment of corporate publications such as newsletters, market intelligence reports, technical documents, two web pages, and a memoir which she promises never to publish. Currently, she lives in Durham where she is writing fiction. §

Bill Fick (Board Member) is a printmaker who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and teaches at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has exhibited his prints nationally and internationally and has taught at many institutions across the United States including the University of North Carolina, Duke University, Pratt Institute and Rutgers University. Fick's work can be found in the collections of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; The New York Public Library and the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University. In 1993 Fick was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship and in 1995 a North Carolina Arts Council Artist Fellowship. Fick is also the director of Cockeyed Press which specializes in the production of satirical linocut prints. Recently, he joined the board of Mi Escuelita, a Spanish immersion preschool in Carrboro, NC. He is currently working on a series of bilingual (Spanish - English) children's picture books. §

Patrick Herron (Board Member) is a poet, artist and information scientist from Chapel Hill, NC, USA. His doll Lester is the author of Be Somebody (2008, Effing Press), about which Pulitzer-winner Ron Silliman wrote, "Like somebody who understands that what makes Moby Dick great is all that stuff about whales, Be Somebody is difficult in the way the very best books are." Patrick is the author of several books of poetry including The American Godwar Complex (2004, BlazeVox) as well as a recent book on the relationship between text mining and scientific discovery in medicine (2008, Verlag Dr. Mueller). He is now working on a new volume of poetry tentatively entitled Embedded. Patrick's work has appeared in the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and his proximate.org was the first new media poetics site added to the permanent collection of the New Museum for Contemporary Art. You may find some of Patrick's poems and essays in print and online journals such as The Exquisite Corpse, Jacket, Fulcrum, Fanzine, A Chide's Alphabet, and Talisman. He is the founder of the Carrboro International Poetry Festival, winner of the 2005 Triangle Arts Award from The Independent (Durham NC), and a former Carrboro Poet Laureate. Patrick teaches new media studies, develops serious games (http://virtualpeace.org), and studies global innovation networks for the Jenkins Chair at Duke University. (http://patrickherron.com) §

Marty Jarrell (Board Member) currently works as communications manager for Ipas, a global women's reproductive health and rights organization. She started at Ipas in 1998, working first in Africa programs, then moving to the communications unit as an editor in 2001, and to her current management position in 2003. Before coming to Ipas, Marty worked in the area of tropical conservation at Duke University where she coordinated international conservation projects, collected/analyzed data, and edited numerous scientific papers, reports and grant proposals. Early in her professional life, Marty wrote advertising copy and press releases for a full-service ad agency. A lifelong feminist and an animal lover, Marty's volunteer activities have often focused on rights and welfare issues for a variety of species. In addition, she has always had an active writing life-journaling and writing fiction, as well as annoying legislators and newspaper editors with her opinions. Marty holds a B.S. in Advertising from the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, 1984 and has completed post-baccalaureate coursework in English literature, creative writing, nonprofit management, and environmental policy. §

David Kellogg (Board Member) was President of Carolina Wren Press from 1998 until 2004. He started at the Press in 1995 by editing two volumes of poetry by Jaki Shelton Green, and later founded and was the series editor for the Carolina Wren Press Chapbook Series. From 1990 to 1992, he was editor of the Carolina Quarterly, a literary journal. A recipient of an Emerging Artists' Award from the Durham Arts Council, David has published poems in numerous journals, including most recently Chain, Samizdat, and Combo. In August, 2004, he joined the faculty at Northeastern University but continues to be an active part of the Press via the internet. §

Susan Kirby-Smith (Board Member) is a graduate of Oberlin College who holds an M.A. in English from UNC-Greensboro. She served on the staff of The Southern Review and Cave Wall for two years and currently assists at LSU Press. In May of 2010, she will earn her M.F.A. from Louisiana State University, where she studied with James Wilcox, Andrei Codrescu, Femi Euba and Rodger Kamenetz. She is working on a novel, several plays and a collection of poems. She edits an online journal called Unmoveable Feast. §

LaHoma Smith Romocki (Board Member) is a Health Communication specialist. Her experience includes managing complex statewide, national, and international public health programs, teaching public health courses, applying scientific research to program operations and interventions, handling media relations, conducting communications research, writing proposals, developing curricula and educational materials, and conducting public health education workshops for U.S. and international audiences. She earned her BA degree from Duke University, a Master of Public Health degree at the School of Public Health, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Journalism and Mass Communication; both from UNC-Chapel Hill. LaHoma currently serves as the Interim Chair of the Department of Public Health Education at North Carolina Central University and is a 2007 recipient of the President's award for 5 years of Peace Corps service. §

Jennifer Snead (Board Member) is an Assistant Professor of English at Texas Tech University, where she teaches and writes on eighteenth-century literature, contemporary poetry, and the history of the book. She has also taught creative writing and contemporary literature at the University of Pennsylvania for several years, where she was Director of the Kelly Writers House. §

Chris Vitiello (Board Member) is a poet who lives in Durham, NC. His book Nouns Swarm A Verb is out from Xurban Books, and his book Irresponsibility was published by Ahsahta Press in 2008. He blogs at http://thedelay.blogspot.com/. §

Kathy Norcross Watts (Board Member) is the author of A Simple Life: A Story of Sid Oakley (available at www.lulu.com). She has a BA in Journalism and an MA in Regional Planning, both from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As a freelance writer, she has published in The News and Observer, Self, The Interpreter, NC Boating Lifestyle, Ceramics Monthly, The Herald-Sun, The Outer Banks Sentinel, Envision Vance and Granville Today. She also writes parenting columns locally. In 2003, she helped begin an after-school homework program for Hispanic children in her community, and, in 2005, for those efforts she was named a Paul Harris Fellow by the Oxford Rotary Club and received The President's Call to Service Award. Also in 2005, she received the Linda A. Ironside Fund for the Arts Award for her Sid Oakley manuscript in progress. In 2006, she received the Linda Flowers Award from the North Carolina Humanities Council for an essay about Sid Oakley. She lives with her husband and four children in Forsyth County, NC. §

Betsy Barton (Administrative Assistant) lives in Durham with her 10 year-old daughter. She is a public health educator and has worked in community, local government, clinical and university-based settings in Durham for 30 years on issues such as occupational health, HIV/AIDS, HIV/Hepatitis C co-infection, school retention and more. She is currently becoming certified as a yoga instructor. §


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