We are excited to welcome Francisco Aguirre-Ghiso, our new Marketing and Communications Intern. Francisco is a University of Massachusetts, Amherst junior, majoring in journalism and English, and he also serves as assistant arts editor at The Daily Collegian, the student newspaper. That mix says a lot before the work even begins. It points to someone who understands deadlines, cares about language, pays attention to culture, and knows how to shape a story so readers want to k

Founded in 1997, Perugia Press is a nonprofit feminist press that publishes one book each year: the winner of the Perugia Press Prize, their annual national contest for first or second books of poetry by women. This is the first year the literary press will be exhibiting and selling their books at the Northampton Book Fair Apostasies by Holli Carrell (Perugia Press.2025) Their mission is to celebrate and support women poets, inclusive of gender-expansive identities, in print