Adrie Rose, Editor

Adrie Rose lives beside an orchard in western MA and is the editor of Nine Syllables Press and the Tammis Day Editorial Fellow at the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College. She has chapbooks forthcoming in 2023 with Gold Line Press and Porkbelly Press. She is a Poetry MFA student at Warren Wilson College. Her work has previously appeared in The Baltimore Review, the Ploughshares blog, Nimrod, The Night Heron Barks, and more.

Jennifer Blackburn, associate editor

Jennifer Blackburn is the Program & Outreach Coordinator for the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College. She earned a bachelor’s in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a master’s in poetry from the University of Arkansas. Twice selected for Best New Poets (2014 and 2016), her work appears in The Massachusetts Review, Indiana Review, The Common and Subtropics, among others.

Matt Donovan, associate editor

Matt Donovan is the author most recently of The Dug-Up Gun Museum (BOA 2022) and the collection of lyric essays, A Cloud of Unusual Size and Shape: Meditations on Ruin and Redemption (Trinity University Press 2016). He is the recipient of a Whiting Award, a Rome Prize in Literature, a Creative Capital Grant, and an NEA Fellowship in Literature. He serves as Director of the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College.

Nine Syllables Press Advisory Board Members:

Genevieve Hartman

Lily Gurton-Wachter

Shannon K. Supple

Jamaica Baldwin

Kylie Gellatly

In addition, students at Smith College who are enrolled in the courses The Chapbook in Practice: Design and/or The Chapbook in Practice: Submissions & Publishing are involved in Nine Syllables Press, participating in reading blind submissions, learning how to design the interior and exterior of chapbooks, and creating marketing for our books. We are very excited about this opportunity for students to engage in the hands-on experience of running a small press.