Carey Salerno

(Poetry in Publication Lecture)

Carey Salerno serves as the executive editor & director of Alice James Books where she has been dedicated to broadening the spectrum of the American literary voice since 2008. She is the author of Tributary (2021), Shelter (2009), and a co-editor of Lit From Inside: 40 Years of Poetry from Alice James Books (2013). She teaches publishing arts and poetry writing for the University of Maine at Farmington.

Salerno is a frequent guest of writing programs, conferences, festivals, where she conducts consultations and delivers talks on publishing arts, editing, poetry, manuscript compilation, and other topics. She has a book of literary criticism related to publishing arts in progress. You may find her essays, poems–and articles and interviews regarding her literary and publishing work–in print and online, including in NPR, Poets & Writers, and American Poetry Review.