The Editorial Staff of Poet Lore

E. Ethelbert Miller
Editor

E. Ethelbert Miller is a literary activist. He is a board member of The Writer's Center and editor of Poet Lore. The author of several collections of poems, his last book HOW WE SLEEP ON THE NIGHTS WE DON'T MAKE LOVE (Curbstone Press, 2004) was an Independent Publisher Award Finalist. Mr. Miller received the 1995 O.B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize. He was awarded in 1996 an honorary doctorate from Emory & Henry College. In 2003 his memoir FATHERING WORDS (St. Martin's Press, 2000), was selected by DC WE READ for its 'One Book, One City' program sponsored by the D. C. Public Libraries. In 2004, Mr. Miller was awarded a Fulbright to visit Israel. Poets & Writers presented him with the 2007 Barnes & Noble/Writers for Writers Award. Mr. Miller is often heard on National Public Radio.

Jody Bolz
Editor

Jody Bolz received her BA and MFA degrees from Cornell University, where she studied with poet A.R. Ammons. After moving to Washington in the late 1970s, she worked as a magazine editor for two major environmental organizations (The Wilderness Society and The Nature Conservancy) and was staff writer for the Alaska Coalition through the Alaska Lands Campaign. Ms. Bolz taught for more than 20 years at George Washington University, serving twice as acting director of the creative writing program. She is the author of A LESSON IN NARRATIVE TIME (Gihon Books, 2004). Her poems and essays have appeared widely in literary magazines—The American Scholar, Crab Orchard Review, Indiana Review, Ploughshares, and Southern Poetry Review among them— and in many anthologies. Among her honors is a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award and the Margaret Bridgman Scholarship in Poetry to the 2001 Bread Loaf Writer's Conference. She became an executive editor of Poet Lore in February of 2002.

Jean Nordhaus
Review Editor

Jean Nordhaus has a doctorate in modern German literature from Yale University. Her most recent collection of poems, Innocence, won Ohio State University Press's Charles B. Wheeler award and was published in November, 2006. Her earlier collections include The Porcelain Apes of Moses Mendelssohn (Milkweed Editions, 2002); My Life in Hiding (a Colladay Award winner, which was published in Quarterly Review of Literature, Vol. XXX); A Bracelet of Lies; and A Language of Hands. She has taught at the University of Maryland and the University of the District of Columbia, and served as Poetry Coordinator at the Folger Shakespeare Library. While at the Folger in 1982-83, she also administered the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. She served for six years as President of Washington Writers' Publishing House and was a Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference in 1987 and a Staff Associate from 1992 through 1994.

Caitlin Hill
Managing Editor

Caitlin Hill has worked in many capacities at the Writer's Center since 2004. She received her BA from Emerson in 2003 and is currently completing her MFA in Creative Writing at American University. Caitlin was selected by author Robert Bausch to be one of four 2007-08 "Starlings," lauding her contributions to the field of creative fiction.