Hannah VanderHart lives and teaches in Durham, NC. She has her MFA in poetry from George Mason University and her MA in English from Georgetown, where she worked with Carolyn Forché at the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice. She recently defended her dissertation Gender and Collaboration in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry at Duke University. She has poetry, reviews and nonfiction published and forthcoming in Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, Southern Humanities Review, The Adroit Journal, Chattahoochee Review, Poetry Northwest and RHINO Poetry. Her poetry chapbook Hands like Birds is available at Ethel Zine Press (November 2019) and her first full-length collection What Pecan Light is forthcoming from Bull City Press (Summer 2020). Hannah is the reviews editor at EcoTheo Review and a member of the National Book Critics Circle.

Buy her new chapbook, Hands Like Birds, at Ethel Zine Press.

Find her on twitter: hmvanderhart, and at INDY Week, discussing the 2018-2019 Little Corner Poetry Reading Series.