Eugenia Hepworth Petty

Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer

US

Author's Bio

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

—Albert Camus

 

 

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Journals:
400 Words
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Letterhead
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Outside In Literary & Travel Magazine
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Prosodia
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The Walrus

Poetry

Chapbooks:
Reconstructions from the Bones of the Whale (Ghost City Press, 2024)
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On a Planet Called Earth (Rinky Dink Press, 2019)
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if apple juice were oil (Poems-For-All, 2016)
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POETRY IS (Poems-For-All, 2016)
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Instructions for the Apocalypse (Dancing Girl Press, 2016)
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People Live Here (Origami Poems Project, 2015)
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Pamyat Selo (Premier Poets Chapbook Series, 2007)

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Adams; Bangs; Camus; Didion; Eliot; Forche; Ginsberg; Hafez; Issa; Joyce; Kaufman; Lawrence; Milne; Notley; Orwell; Pachinko; Quasimodo; Robin; Shakespeare; Thompson; Usigli; Verlaine; Whitman; X; Yeats; Zhadan

More Information

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Raised in: 
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Last update: May 22, 2025