Marie Gauthier’s debut full-length poetry collection, Leave No Wake, was published by Pine Row Press in April 2022.
She works as the senior marketing project manager at Pioneer Valley Books. She is the founding president of the League of Women Voters of Franklin County and co-president of the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts. Previously she was the GM at the Jeffery Amherst Bookshop in Amherst, Mass., and Director of Sales & Marketing at Tupelo Press, and ran the Collected Poets Series for 11 years.
Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Bracken Magazine, The West Review, Linebreak, Cave Wall, Sugar House Review, Hunger Mountain, Crab Creek Review, The Grove Review, Poetry Northwest, The Common, Hiram Poetry Review, San Pedro River Review, and elsewhere.
She was the recipient of a 2008 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize, and received Honorable Mention in the 2010 Dorothy Prizes. Her chapbook, Hunger All Inside, was released by Finishing Line Press in October 2009.
Marie lives with her family in Shelburne Falls, Mass.
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