Marie Gauthier is the Director of Sales & Marketing at Tupelo Press.  She worked at the Jeffery Amherst Bookshop in Amherst, MA from 1998 until its closing on Nov. 28, 2008. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in many journals, including American Poetry Journal, Cave Wall, Existere, Rattle, Tulane Review, Good Foot, Weave Magazine, among others.

Her chapbook manuscript, The Opposite of Deaf, was a semi-finalist in Black Lawrence Press’ Fall 2007 Black River Chapbook Competition. She was the recipient of a 2008 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize. Her chapbook, Hunger All Inside, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in September 2009.

Marie and her husband, Lance, live in Shelburne Falls, MA (home of the alluring yet incredibly dangerous Glacial Potholes) with their boys & masters, Vincent & new baby Aidan.

This blog is her own personal blog, and in no way affiliated with Tupelo Press.  Just so you know.