About Toadlily
Not Just Another Poetry Press
What distinguishes Toadlily Press from other fine literary presses that also focus on poetry and strive for the highest quality in writing craft and book design? Toadlily Press’s books juxtapose multiple voices in dialogue with one another and the reader.
Every book in The Quartet Series presents four poets—emerging, rediscovered, or celebrated—in one handsome, perfect-bound volume. The chapbook size of each poet’s section will allow that writer to pursue other venues for a book-length manuscript.
As Ilya Kaminsky comments in his introduction to The Fifth Voice:
It is a brilliant idea to put together a festival of four different lyric voices.
The mission of Toadlily Press is to develop a community of poets and readers. Through the arrangement of multiple poetic voices in chapbook anthologies, collaborations, readings, panel discussions, and through our interactive web site, we hope to create a gathering place where conversation can occur.
See the submissions page for details.
Publishers/Executive Editors:
Myrna Goodman is an award-winning ceramic artist. Her clay constructions and poems are narrative responses to the complexities of language and life. Her poems have been published in Confrontation, The Cortland Review, Karamu and other literary journals and anthologies. She designs Toadlily’s book covers and promotional materials. mgoodman@toadlilypress.com
Meredith Trede has had poems published in numerous journals and anthologies including The Paris Review, Barrow Street, and Gargoyle. Her book Field Theory was published by SFA Press in September 2011. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and has been awarded residency fellowships from Blue Mountain Center, Ragdale, Saltonstall and VCCA. She and her husband are partners in a management consulting firm. mtrede@toadlilypress.com
Special Projects Director:
Katherine Hyde is a freelance writer, editor and marketing consultant. She holds a JD from New York University and practiced corporate law in New York and New Jersey for a number of years. klhyde@toadlilypress.com
Editors:
Heidi Hart holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and is currently pursuing doctoral work in German Studies at Duke University-UNC Chapel Hill. Her published work includes the memoir Grace Notes (University of Utah Press, 2004) and the poetry chapbook “In Ordinary Time” (Edge by Edge, Toadlily Press, 2007). She has received a Pushcart Prize (2008), a Jentel Foundation Residency Award (2009), a Finalist award in the U.K.’s Aesthetica competition (2010), and First Prize for a book-length poetry collection in the Utah Arts Council’s Literary Arts Competition (2010). Heidi has taught for several years at Westminster College in Salt Lake City; she will be teaching creative writing in Berlin this summer as a Duke University Helga Bessent Fellow.
Rachel M. Simon is the author of Theory of Orange and Marginal Road. She teaches writing, gender studies and film courses at SUNY Purchase College, Pace University, and Marymount Manhattan’s degree granting college program in Bedford Hills Correctional Facility.
Intern:
Michelle Ketchum is a senior at Purchase College majoring in Creative Writing and minoring in Literature. She is currently the assistant editor at Purchase’s art magazine, The Submission, which has previously published her poetry. After graduating, she hopes to pursue a career in writing/publishing and seek publication for her senior project poetry manuscript.
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Toadlily Press is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the purposes of Toadlily Press must be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law. To contribute, mail your check payable to Fractured Atlas to Toadlily Press, PO Box 2, Chappaqua, NY 10514; or to contribute online, click here or visit fracturedatlas.org.
