Please join us in inviting poets Danielle Hanson and Erin Lynch. Light refreshments will be available and book signing will occur.
Danielle Hanson is Writer-in-Residence at UC Irvine and the inaugural Poet Laureate of Costa Mesa, CA. She is the 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), and editor of the poetry anthology Objects in This Mirror and a book of literary criticism. She is Marketing Director for Sundress Publications. Her poetry was the basis for a puppet show at the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta. Previously, she has been Poet-in-Residence at Arts Beacon in Atlanta, where she curated a poet/artist collaboration show Alloy, and has served as Writer-in-Residence for Georgia Writers and as Poetry Editor for Hayden’s Ferry Review. Her work has appeared in over 100 journals.
Erin Marie Lynch is the author of Removal Acts (Graywolf Press, October 2023). Her poems appear in Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, POETRY, New England Review, DIAGRAM, and other publications. She has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, Bread Loaf Writers Conference’, the Wurlitzer Foundation, Indigenous Nations Poets, and the Hugo House. She was born and raised in Oregon; she is a direct descendant of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. She lives in Los Angeles, where she is a President's Postdoctoral Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside.