Joan Houlihan is the author of five books of poetry, most recently, Shadow-feast (Four Way Books, 2018). A sixth collection, It Isn’t a Ghost if it Lives in Your Chest, is forthcoming in 2021. She is part-time Professor of Practice at Clark University in Worcester, MA and serves on the faculty of Lesley University’s Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program in Cambridge, MA. Houlihan founded and directs the Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference.
