Dr. Han VanderHart

North Carolina, United States

Member Since: 05/08/2023

Han VanderHart lives in Durham, North Carolina. She holds an MFA in poetry from George Mason University and an MA in English from Georgetown, where she worked with Carolyn Forché at the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice. In 2019, she received her PhD in English from Duke University and defended the dissertation Gender and Collaboration in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry. Her poetry, reviews, and essays have appeared in Poetry Daily, The Boston Globe, Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, AGNI, Southern Humanities Review, Chattahoochee Review, Poetry Northwest, Poetry International, RHINO Poetry, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, The Greensboro Review and The Rumpus. She is the author of the poetry chapbook Hands like Birds (Ethel Zine Press, 2019) and the poetry collection What Pecan Light (forthcoming from Bull City Press, Spring 2021). Her works-in-progress include the poetry collection Larks and the essay collection Confederate Monument Removal. Han is the reviews editor at EcoTheo Review and edits Moist Poetry Journal.

Website: www.hanvanderhart.com

Twitter Username: @hmvanderhart

Publications

What Pecan Light , Bull City Press (April 19, 2021)

Degrees

Doctoral Degree in English from Duke University (May 2019)
Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from George Mason University (May 2010)
Master of Arts in English from Georgetown (May 2012)

Genres of Interest

Creative nonfiction, Poetry