Board of Directors

Amy Dryansky

Amy Dryansky’s second poetry collection, Grass Whistle (Salmon Poetry), received the MA Book Award. Her first book, How I Got Lost So Close to Home, won the New …

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Jean Blakeman

Jean Blakeman is a poet and editor. Her poems have appeared in Silkworm, Compass Roads, and 56 Days of August. She was a longtime board member of Center for New Americans, …

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Susan Kan

Susan Kan is the founder and former director of Perugia Press. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. She has been reading poetry since she …

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Rebecca Olander

Rebecca Olander took the helm at Perugia Press in 2016 after serving as a longtime reader, judge, and board member. She also teaches writing at Amherst College and Westfield State University and works …

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