Cathryn Hankla (Author)
Biography:
Cathryn Hankla’s fourteen books include Lost Places: On Losing and Finding Home, Galaxies, Great Bear, Fortune Teller Miracle Fish: stories, Last Exposures: a sequence of poems, and Texas School Book Depository: prose poems. She is Professor and Chair of English & Creative Writing at Hollins University, served as the inaugural director of the Jackson Center for Creative Writing (2008-2012), and is a former director of the MFA and undergraduate CW programs.
Hankla’s poetry, fiction, and nonfiction appears regularly in literary journals and anthologies; she has presented her work at colleges and universities, conferences, bookstores, book clubs, and libraries across the US and abroad in the U.K, Czech Republic, France, southern Spain and Malta. Her work has been honored by a PEN Syndicated Fiction Prize, the James Boatwright III Prize for Poetry, and a New York Book Festival award, among others. She serves as Poetry Editor for The Hollins Critic and is also a visual artist.
Born in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, Hankla graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude, earning first-in-class honors from Hollins College. As an undergraduate she received the Intro award in poetry from AWP and twice won the Academy of American Poets Prize. She took her graduate degree in 1982, studying alongside Madison Smartt Bell, Jill McCorkle, Kim Kafka, Wyn Cooper, and the late Don Belton.
After 30+ years in higher education, including appointments at University of Virginia, Washington and Lee University, and numerous visits to various schools, teaching continues to be a high priority; she has designed several innovative writing and literature courses, including Image and Word, Cross Genre & Experimental Writing, and How Writing is Written. She enjoys applauding the many successes of her students.
Hankla’s poetry, fiction, and nonfiction appears regularly in literary journals and anthologies; she has presented her work at colleges and universities, conferences, bookstores, book clubs, and libraries across the US and abroad in the U.K, Czech Republic, France, southern Spain and Malta. Her work has been honored by a PEN Syndicated Fiction Prize, the James Boatwright III Prize for Poetry, and a New York Book Festival award, among others. She serves as Poetry Editor for The Hollins Critic and is also a visual artist.
Born in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, Hankla graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude, earning first-in-class honors from Hollins College. As an undergraduate she received the Intro award in poetry from AWP and twice won the Academy of American Poets Prize. She took her graduate degree in 1982, studying alongside Madison Smartt Bell, Jill McCorkle, Kim Kafka, Wyn Cooper, and the late Don Belton.
After 30+ years in higher education, including appointments at University of Virginia, Washington and Lee University, and numerous visits to various schools, teaching continues to be a high priority; she has designed several innovative writing and literature courses, including Image and Word, Cross Genre & Experimental Writing, and How Writing is Written. She enjoys applauding the many successes of her students.
Website: http://www.cathrynhankla.com/
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