January Gill O'Neil

January Gill O’Neil is co-poetry editor for SolLit as well as the author of Misery Islands (fall 2014) and Underlife (2009), both published by CavanKerry Press. She is the executive director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival and an assistant professor of English at Salem State University. Recently, she was elected to the Association of Writers and Writing Programs’ (AWP) board of directors. January’s poems and articles have appeared or are forthcoming in Harvard Review, Green Mountains Review, American Poetry Review, New England Review, and Ploughshares, among others. A Cave Canem fellow, she runs a popular blog called Poet Mom . January lives with her two children in Beverly, Massachusetts.