Maureen Thorson is a poet, publisher, and book designer living in Washington, D.C. She is the author of a number of chapbooks, including Mayport, which won the Poetry Society of America's National Chapbook Fellowship for 2006. Her poems can be found in many anthologies and journals, including the forthcoming Yale Anthology of Younger American Poets, Exquisite Corpse, Hotel Amerika, LIT, The Hat, and 6x6.

Maureen is the publisher and editor of Big Game Books, a small press dedicated to emerging poets. Big Game was named Washington's "Best Small Press" by the Washington City Paper in 2008. So far, the press has put out 57 chapbooks and "tinysides." Big Game will soon be shifting its focus to full length books.

Maureen is the co-curator of the In Your Ear reading series at the DC Arts Center. The series brings poets to DC from far and wide. Past readings have featured poets such as Anne Tardos, Bruce Andrews, Bill Berkson, Cathy Wagner, and Rob Halpern. You can read the Washington Post's write-up of a recent reading here.

Maureen is also the founder of NaPoWriMo, an annual project in which poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April. If you'd like to sign up for NaPoWriMo 2010, please email napowrimo2010 AT gmail DOT com.

You can contact Maureen at reenhead-AT-gmail-DOT-com.