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In Conversation: Pauletta Hansel & Sara Wagner with Ellen Austin-Li
May 8, 2023 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm EDT
Poets Pauletta Hansel & Sara Wagner discuss their work with fellow poet Ellen Austin-Li. Learn more about these poets in their bios below.
About Pauletta Hansel
Pauletta Hansel’s nine poetry collections include Heartbreak Tree, winner of the 2023 Poetry Society of Virginia’s North American Book Award, and Palindrome, winner of the 2017 Weatherford Award for Appalachian poetry. She was 2022 Writer-in-Residence for The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County and Cincinnati’s first Poet Laureate. Her writing has been featured in Oxford American, Rattle, Appalachian Review, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, American Life in Poetry, and Poetry Daily, among others.
paulettahansel.wordpress.comAbout Sara Wagner
Sara Moore Wagner is the author of three prize-winning full length books of poetry, Lady Wing Shot, winner of the 2022 Blue Lynx Prize (forthcoming in 2024), Swan Wife (2021 Cider Press Review Editors Prize, published in 2022), and Hillbilly Madonna (2020 Driftwood Press Manuscript Prize, published in 2022), and the author of two chapbooks, Tumbling After (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2022) and Hooked Through (2017). She is also a 2022 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award recipient, a 2021 National Poetry Series Finalist, and the recipient of a 2019 Sustainable Arts Foundation award. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in many journals and anthologies including Gulf Coast, Sixth Finch, Waxwing, Beloit Poetry Journal, and The Cincinnati Review, among others. Find her at www.saramoorewagner.com
About Ellen Austin-Li
Ellen Austin-Li’s work has appeared in Artemis, Thimble Literary Magazine, The Maine Review, Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices, Lily Poetry Review, Rust + Moth, and other places. Finishing Line Press published her two chapbooks—Firefly (2019) and Lockdown: Scenes From Early in the Pandemic (2021). She’s a Best of the Net nominee. A Martin B. Bernstein Fellowship recipient, she earned an MFA in Poetry at the Solstice Low-Residency Program. Ellen co-founded the monthly reading series, “Poetry Night at Sitwell’s,” in Cincinnati, where she lives with her husband in a newly empty nest. You can find more of her work at www.ellenaustinli.me.