Monday Must Read! Ellen Hagan: Hemisphere and Crowned

Monday Must Read! 

This weeek, meet Ellen Hagan, writer, performer, and educator. Her latest collection of poetry Hemisphere was released from Northwestern University Press, Spring 2015. Ellen’s poems and essays can be found in the pages of Creative Nonfiction, Underwired Magazine, She Walks in Beauty (edited by Caroline Kennedy), Huizache, Small Batch, and Southern Sin. Her first collection of poetry, Crowned was published by Sawyer House Press in 2010.

Ellen recently joined the po­etry faculty at West Virginia Wesleyan in their low-residency MFA program. She teaches Memoir, Poetry & Nature, and co-leads the Alice Hoffman Young Writer’s Retreat at Adelphi University. She is Poetry Chair of the DreamYard Project. A proud Kentucky writer, Ellen is a member of the Affrilachian Poets, Conjure Women, and is co-founder of the girlstory collective. She lives with her husband and daughters in New York City.

Website

 http://www.ellenhagan.com

Buy Local

Hemisphere: Poems | IndieBound

Review

BOOK: Ellen Hagan’s ‘Hemisphere’ – LEO Weekly

Duende Literary Magazine

http://www.duendeliterary.org/ellen-hagan/