About Me
January Gill O’Neil is the author of
Rewilding (fall 2018), Misery Islands (2014), and Underlife (2009), published by CavanKerry
Press. She is an assistant professor of English at Salem State University, and boards
of trustees member with the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)
and Montserrat College of Art. From 2012-2018, she served as executive director
of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival. A Cave Canem fellow, January’s poems and
articles have appeared in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day series, American Poetry Review, New England Review, Ploughshares and Ecotone,
among others. In 2018, January was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council
grant, and was named the John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence for
2019-2020 at the University of Mississippi, Oxford. She lives with her two
children in Beverly, Massachusetts.
Contact me at jgill27494 AT AOL Dot Com. (I know, old school.)