I'm so happy to introduce the faculty of this summer's Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching and our Teachers As Writers workshop!

Iain Haley Pollock’s first collection of poems, Spit Back a Boy, won the 2010 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. He lives in Philadelphia and teaches English at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, where he is the Cyrus H. Nathan ’30 Faculty Chair for English. In addition, Pollock is on the faculty of the Solstice MFA Program of Pine Manor College.

Meg Kearney (pronounced “car-nee”) is author of two novels-in-verse for teens: The Secret of Me (Persea, 2005) and its sequel, The Girl in the Mirror (Persea, 2012), named by Mom.Me as a great mother-daughter read. Her short story, “Chalk,” appears in Sudden Flash Youth: 65 Short-Short Stories (Persea, 2011).Meg’s picture book, Trouper, was published by Scholastic in 2013 and features illustrations by E. B. Lewis. Her collections of poems for adults include An Unkindness of Ravens (BOA Editions, 2001) and Home By Now (Four Way Books, 2010), winner of the 2010 PEN New England L. L. Winship Award. Meg has taught poetry at The New School University, and is the director of the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program of Pine Manor College in Massachusetts. Her poetry has been featured on Poetry Daily and Garrison Keillor’s “A Writer’s Almanac,” and has been published in myriad literary magazines and anthologies. A native New Yorker, Meg now lives in New Hampshire.

Teresa Carson is the associate publisher at CavanKerry Press and the assistant director of the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching. She holds an MFA in poetry and an MFA in theater, both from Sarah Lawrence College. She has also published a full-length book of poetry, Elegy for the Floater (CavanKerry Press, 2008) and a chapbook of poems, The Congress of Human Oddities (VV-UC, 2012). Her latest full-length collection, My Crooked House, is forthcoming from CavanKerry Press in May 2014.

Baron Wormser is the author/co-author of twelve full-length books and a poetry chapbook. His titles include The Road Washes Out in Spring: A Poet’s Memoir of Living Off the Grid,Scattered Chapters: New and Selected Poems, The Poetry Life: Ten Stories, and the novel Give Us That Peace. His most recent book of poetry is Impenitent Notes (2011). A former poet laureate of Maine, he teaches in the Fairfield University MFA program and is director of educational outreach at The Frost Place. Wormser has received fellowships from Bread Loaf, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He has worked for decades as a freelance teacher and has led dozens of workshops, including sessions in Maine, Massachusetts, Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, Maryland, Georgia, and Illinois under the auspices of organizations such as the National Council of Teachers of English, the National Writing Project, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.