About Hannah Brooks-Motl
Hannah Brooks-Motl is a poet, editor, and scholar. She grew up in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, about thirty miles from Blackhawk Island, where poet Lorine Niedecker lived for most of her life. As a child and adolescent, Hannah spent many days on her family’s farm in northwestern Illinois—watching horses, playing cards. Parts of this history surface in Earth (The Song Cave, 2019), her most recent book of poems, in which “Creation gathers my filth & your filth … Pleasurable scales of wheat lands & corn lands & edge / former companions through the spider’s web.”The author of the previous poetry collections M (The Song Cave, 2015), and The New Years (Rescue Press, 2014), Hannah was the poetry editor of the Chicago Review from 2016–2019 and is currently an assistant acquisitions editor for Amherst College Press and Lever Press. With Stephanie Burt, she helped edit Randall Jarrell on W.H. Auden (2005). She earned an MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a PhD from the University of Chicago. Her poems, essays, and scholarship have appeared in journals such as the Cambridge Literary Review, jubilat, and Modernism/modernity, among others.
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