Jason O'Toole

Jason O'Toole is the 6th Poet Laureate of North Andover, Massachusetts. As a member of the North Andover Poet Laureate’s Committee, O'Toole helped found the Anne Bradstreet Poetry Contest, named for America’s first published poet who lived in the area.

He is the author of three collections of poetry. His work has recently appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Central Dissent: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality, and The Lowell Review. By day, he's the risk manager for a Boston area psychiatric hospital, and a board member of the Independent Living Resource Center in San Francisco.

Author portrait by Alec K. Redfearn