Hannah V Warren

folks out here guzzling raw milk are the same people who are morally afraid of sushi

Hurricane Pastoral, a new poetry collection. Sundress Publications, January 2027.

Slaughterhouse for Old Wives’ Tales. Sundress Publications. January 2024.

my high school creating writing teacher wouldn’t let me use the word “ungodly” in a short story & I now like imagine my poetry would straight up startle her eyebrows off

check in! I’ve moved to Ohio where I’ve accepted a fellowship at Kenyon College for the next two years. I’ll work with the inimitable Kenyon Review & teach a class or two. still reading, still writing.

Delighted that the notion of a “best friend” survives in every apocalypse narrative

June's newsletter will include a few memories of Alice Notley, a writing prompt inspired by our devastating loss of Notley and Martha Silano, a few notes on upcoming events and my impending move(s), and a new poem. subscribe (free) here: hannahvwarren.eo.page/subscribe

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writers at a coffee shop outside AWP: the robots, they’re gonna take over

Los Angeles Day 1: excellent food, sexually harassed by three men, art museums

the cool thing about hiking alone as a woman is that I try to keep an equal distance between hikers ahead of and behind me so I don’t get kidnapped while also trying to pace myself so I can make a lukewarm attempt at fighting off a mountain lion

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absurdly woken up at a Galveston beach campsite by a loud snap that sounded like lightning. no storm? no thunder? birds scatter. grackles hiss. on the beach is a man cracking an Indiana Jones whip at 2am.

[…] time to cultivate my creative pedagogy in a new environment. I’m unbelievably thrilled for the next two years.

[…] while working closely with the Kenyon Review to publish some of the most radical and important voices in contemporary literature. This fellowship provides time—time to learn more about the natural world in a new landscape, time to finish and revise a poetry manuscript, time to query a novel […]

In rather large news, I’ve accepted an offer for the Kenyon Review Fellowship! Following in the footsteps of writers like Flannery O’Connor, W.S. Merwin, James Wright, Natalie Shapero, Keith S. Wilson, and Molly McCully Brown, I’ll live in Gambier, OH, where I’ll pursue my own writing projects while working closely with the Kenyon Review to publish some of the most radical and important voices in contemporary literature. This fellowship provides time—time to learn more about the natural world in a new landscape, time to finish and revise a poetry manuscript, time to query a novel, time to cultivate my creative pedagogy in a new environment. I’m unbelievably thrilled for the next two years.

In rather large news, I’ve accepted an offer for the Kenyon Review Fellowship! Following in the footsteps of writers like Flannery O’Connor, W.S. Merwin, James Wright, Natalie Shapero, Keith S. Wilson, and Molly McCully Brown, I’ll live in Gambier, OH, where I’ll pursue my own writing projects […]

if my Fulbright were suspended in the middle of the year, I would have been stranded with a lease in Germany and no way to pay it. the Fulbright pays for rent and groceries while people are engaged in deep, life-changing research to make the world better.

absolutely devastating & embarrassing on the global stage. the Fulbright changed my life—told me how cooperation should function. I’d be a different person without it.

Roxane Gay Books & The Audacity Submission Manager THE AUDACITY, my newsletter, features an emerging writer twice a month. I define emerging writer as someone with fewer than three article/essay/short story publications and no published books or book ...

I am accepting submissions for my emerging writer series at gay.submittable.com. You should have three publications or fewer and no book contract. Yes, this is a paid opportunity. Guidelines at the link. Plz follow the guidelines.

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American friends: please spend 5-10 minutes freezing your credit so no one can fuck up your life in the dumbest way by stealing your identity. it’s free, it’s easy. it’s also easy to unfreeze when you need to buy a car or open a new bank account or whatever. guidance ⬇️

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I’m startled by how this critical essay could easily translate into a poem or lyric essay or novel. instead, this piece is academic, drawing from so many poets writing in the southern gothic tradition

composing an article on the Female Southern Gothic in poetry as a critique of white Christian evangelicalism & watching the boundaries of genre crumble in my own writing as personal history culminates as critical evidence

hi new folks! this is me:
- poet with some books
- Southern Gothic femmonster
- scholar of the grotesque in sf & poetry
- German lit translator
- from Mississippi, have lived scatterplot in USA & Europe, now in Alabama
- naturalist & avid backpacker, hiker, nature-observer

In this collection that revises epic tradition, Bernhardt struggles with her post-war identity as a German citizen. And, on a larger scale, the poems establish what it means to be European through found, fractured, and experimental poems, reflecting Europe’s long and shifting cultural identities.

List of grantees on the Pen/HEIM website

As America burns, I’m experiencing a moment of gratitude and joy—I’ve received a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant to support my translation of Alexandra Bernhardt’s German poetry. In the dark, we find human connection and make art.

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(Note: I'm not a ghostwriter; I guide clients in mapping out projects and provide developmental and line-level revisions.)

One of my favorite projects right now is a one-on-one unofficial course/book club on Southern Gothic Literature I'm leading for a lovely Hollywood director. We deeply discuss historical context and connections among texts.

Email me at hannahvwarren@gmail.com. Find me on my website at hannahvwarren.com. I work with clients on poetry collections, novels, short stories, dissertations, theses, and more. Included: developmental feedback, book coaching, line edits, and more.

I currently have room in my schedule for a few more freelance clients. Let me know if you or someone you love wants to navigate the perils and joys of a book project together! I work with folks on their novels, poetry collections, grant applications, academic writing, and a few other odds and ends.

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I’m currently laid up with norovirus remembering periods of illness and fever—better than watching an eighth episode of a show I already can’t remember