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Pauletta Hansel
Pauletta Hansel is a poet, memoirist and teacher. Her books include Will There Also Be Singing? (Shadelandhouse Modern Press, 2024), poems of witness and protest; Heartbreak Tree (Madville Publications, 2022), which won the Poetry Society of Virginia’s 2023 North American Book Award; and Palindrome (Dos Madres Press, 2017) winner of Berea College’s Weatherford Award in Poetry.…Read More
Pauletta Hansel is a poet, memoirist and teacher. Her books include Will There Also Be Singing? (Shadelandhouse Modern Press, 2024), poems of witness and protest; Heartbreak Tree (Madville Publications, 2022), which won the Poetry Society of Virginia’s 2023 North American Book Award; and Palindrome (Dos Madres Press, 2017) winner of Berea College’s Weatherford Award in Poetry. Her writing has been featured in Cincinnati Review, Oxford American, Rattle, Cutleaf, Appalachian Journal, Still: The Journal, Verse Daily and Poetry Daily, among others. Born and raised in southeastern Kentucky, Pauletta was Cincinnati’s first poet laureate, and the 2022 Writer in Residence for the Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library. She is a core member of the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition, and past managing editor of Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, the literary journal of the Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative. Visit her website at
https://paulettahansel.wordpress.com/.