Danielle Hanson

Poet

Chapel Hill, NC

North Carolina US

Email:

[email protected]

Website:

daniellejhanson.com

Author's Bio

Danielle Hanson is Professor of the Practice in Creative Writing at UNC-Chapel Hill and author of The Night Is What It Eats (Elixir Press Prize), Fraying Edge of Sky (Codhill Press Poetry Prize), and Ambushing Water (Finalist, Georgia Author of the Year Award). She serves as the inaugural Poet Laureate for Costa Mesa, California and is an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow for 2026-2027. She edited the poetry anthology Objects in This Mirror with Julia Beach, and two books of literary criticism. She is Guest Editor for Codhill Press and Marketing Director for Sundress Publications. Previously, Danielle has been Writer-in-Residence at UC Irvine, Poet-in-Residence at Arts Beacon Gallery in Atlanta, where she curated a poet/artist collaboration show Alloy, and Writer-in-Residence for Georgia Writers. Her poetry was the basis for a puppet show at the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta. She received her MFA from Arizona State University and her undergraduate degree from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Education:

Arizona State University MFA

Writers Retreats:

Hambidge Creative Residency Program

Publications & Prizes

Books:

The Night Is What It Eats (Elixir Press, 2025)

Fraying Edge of Sky (Codhill Press, 2018)

Ambushing Water (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2016)

Prizes won:

Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship, 2026

Faculty Professional Development Fund Award, UC Irvine, 2024

Poets & Writers Reading and Workshop Grant for Alloy, a pairing of poets and

artists, 2021

Poets & Writers Reading and Workshop Grant for Adult Workshop, 2021

Poetry manuscripts have been short- and long-listed over 60 times for publication awards including Two Sylvia's Press Wilder Prize, The Washington Prize, Hilary Tham Capital Collection, Richard Snyder Publication Prize, Elixir Press Poetry Prize, Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 42 Miles Press Poetry Prize, White Pine Press Poetry Prize, Lexi Rudnitsky Prize, Idaho Poetry Prize, Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Competition, Tenth Gate Prize, Slope Editions Book Prize, Codhill Press Poetry Prize, John Ciardi Poetry Prize, Wick Poetry Prize, Antivenom Poetry Prize, Crab Orchard Poetry Series Award, National Poetry Series, Robert Dana Prize for Poetry, Blue Lynx Prize, Miller Williams Poetry Prize,

Poems have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes by The Big Window Review, Ilya Kaminsky, Codhill Press, Signal Mountain Review, Brick Road Poetry Press, The Meadow, Peacock Journal, and The Asheville Review; and for the Best of the Net by Burningword Literary Journal and Apple Valley Review.

Finalist, Fulton County Poet Laureate, 2020

Finalist, Gulf Coast Prize in Translation for translations from Agnes Gerner’s Sus, 2019

Vi Gale Award, Hubbub Magazine, 2016

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

White

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Atlanta, GA

Georgia

Raised in:

Chattanooga, TN

Tennessee

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Last update: Aug 10, 2026