Cathryn Hankla

Upcoming Events:

February 9, 2PM: Book No Further, Roanoke VA, Book Launch for Return to a Certain Region of Consciousness: New & Selected Poems

February 23, 4PM: Flutes Wine Lounge, Lynchburg, VA

March 2, 2PM: Scuppernong Books, Greensboro, NC

March 20-22: Appalachian Studies Association Conference, Cookeville, TN, 2 events, tba

March 30, 5PM, Market Gallery, Roanoke, VA

April 6, 4:30PM: Malaprops, Asheville, NC

April 10, 7PM: Blacksburg Books, Blacksburg, VA

April 23, 6PM: The Bookmatters, Milford, OH

Workshop:

August 17-22, Writer's Retreat and Workshop in August, St Francis Springs, Stoneville, NC

"Write Around the Corner" link to view program

For info on manscript reviews (prose and poetry) & poetry tutorials: hanklatome@yahoo.com

BOOKS BY CATHRYN HANKLA

POETRY:

Return to a Certain Region of Consciousess: New & Selected Poems

Immortal Stuff: prose poems

Not Xanadu
Galaxies
Great Bear --Finalist for the Library of Virginia Poetry Prize
Last Exposures
Poems for the Pardoned
Emerald City Blues
Texas School Book Depository-- Finalist for the Library of Virginia Poetry Prize
Negative History
Afterimages
Phenomena

FICTION:
Fortune Teller Miracle Fish
The Land Between
A Blue Moon in Poorwater
Learning the Mother Tongue

NONFICTION:
Lost Places: On Losing and Finding Home

BRIEF BIO of Cathryn Hankla:

Born in the Appalachian mountain town of Richlands, Virginia, Cathryn Hankla is professor emerita of English & creative writing, Hollins University, where she spent most of her academic career. She directed the Jackson Center for Creative Writing, twice chaired the English & Creative Writing Department, and has served as Poetry Editor of The Hollins Critic (since 1996). She was appointed Jackson Professor of Creative Writing 2012-2014.

Hankla has published sixteen books in multiple genres, including IMMORTAL STUFF (prose poems), NOT XANADU (poetry), LOST PLACES: On Losing and Finding Home (a memoir in essays), GALAXIES (poetry), GREAT BEAR (poetry), FORTUNE TELLER MIRACLE FISH (stories), and A BLUE MOON IN POORWATER (novel). Her poetry ranges through forms, received and invented, including prose poems. Her writing has been awarded the James Boatwright III Poetry Prize, a PEN Syndicated Fiction Prize, a Virginia Commission for the Arts grant in poetry, and artist's fellowships here and abroad to Malta, Spain, and France.

Her poetry is anthologized in The Southern Poetry Anthology, IX: Virginia, A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, World English Poetry, The Southern Poetry Anthology, Shenandoah: 20 Years of Poetry, and Mississippi Review Anthology, among others. Hankla's poems, stories, and essays appear regularly in journals such as New World Writing, Arts & Letters, Jubilat, Appalachian Heritage, Denver Quarterly, North American Review, and Alaska Quarterly.

Hankla exhibits artwork at Market Gallery, Roanoke, and enjoys run/walking along the Roanoke River Greenway.