Andrea Selch (President) joined the board 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, and Prairie Schooner. Her full-length collection of poetry, Startling, was runner-up in the 2003 Turning Point competition and was published by Turning Point Press in October, 2004. Her next collection, Boy Returning Water to the Sea:Koans for Kelly Fearing, will be published in fall, 2007. §

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. §

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) was Carrboro Poet Laureate in 2004 and 2005 and the organizer of the 2004 and 2005 Carrboro Poetry Festivals which featured dozens of poets reading over a two-day period. Patrick is the author of the chapbook Man Eating Rice and has had more than 80 poems published in journals including Exquisite Corpse, Jacket, and Fulcrum, in the anthology 100 Days, and as part of Project Hope at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. Patrick is a native Philadelphian and a longtime resident of North Carolina. Currently, he is pursuing a degree at UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Library and Information Science and is a research assistant at Ibiblio.org, the world's first and largest digital library. When Patrick has free time he likes to make electronic music or work on his ongoing web art project, Proximate.org, a website he originally built in 1999 that has since been featured in the Rhizome.org electronic collection of the New Museum and in university hypertext and design curricula around the globe. §

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. §

Chris Vitiello (Board Member) is a poet who lives in Durham, NC. His book Nouns Swarm A Verb is out on Xurban Books, and his book Irresponsibility is forthcoming from Ahsahta Press in 2007. He blogs at http://the_delay.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 and The Outer Banks Sentinel, Envision Vance and Granville Today magazines. 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. §

Ruth Eckles (Administrative Assistant) is a writer and musician. She writes for the Independent, Rambler Magazine, and other publications. Her focus is primarily on artists and their creative process. She writes songs and plays music in the band Sawteeth McTweedy and The Particles with her partner, Joe Rizzolo.§


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