Danielle Hanson

Poet

Irvine, CA
California US

Author's Bio

Danielle Hanson is author of The Night Is What It Eats (forthcoming, Elixir Press Prize), Fraying Edge of Sky (Codhill Press Poetry Prize), and Ambushing Water (Finalist, Georgia Author of the Year), and editor of Objects in This Mirror (Press 53) and a book of literary criticism. Her poetry was the basis for a puppet show at the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta. She is Marketing Director for Sundress Publications, and serves on their Editorial Board and as Managing Editor for their imprint Doubleback Books. Previously, she has been Poet-in-Residence at Arts Beacon in Atlanta, where she curated a poet/artist collaboration show Alloy. She has also served as Writer-in-Residence for Georgia Writers, Poetry Editor for Doubleback Books, Poetry Editor for Hayden’s Ferry Review, and taught poetry workshops at high schools and public libraries. Her work has appeared in over 100 journals. She teaches poetry at the University of California, Irvine and serves as Poet Laureate for Costa Mesa, California. More at daniellejhanson.com. 

Publications & Prizes

Books:
The Night Is What It Eats (Elixir Press, 2025)
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Fraying Edge of Sky (Codhill Press, 2018)
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Ambushing Water (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2016)
Prizes won: 

Poetry manuscripts have been short- and long-listed over 55 times for publication awards including 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: Feb 10, 2025