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Hannah Bonner is a writer, film programmer, and educator. She is a 2023-2024 National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critics Fellow, the Poetry Editor for Brink, and a creative nonfiction MFA candidate at the University of Iowa.
She is represented by Chris Fischbach at Fischbach Creative.
Follow her on Twitter @HannahB40843697, Instagram @hannah__bonner or contact her at bonnerhannah24 at gmail dot com
MFA in Creative Nonfiction from University of Iowa (2021-present)
MA in Film Studies from University of Iowa (2017)
BA in English & Creative Writing from UNC-Chapel Hill (2010)
Selected Publications
Poetry:
Cutleaf
The Hopkins Review
The Carolina Quarterly
Bear Review
TriQuarterly
Volume Poetry
Small Orange
The LaHave Review
Rattle
The West Review
Pigeon Pages
Schlag Magazine
The Pinch Journal
PromptPress
The Vassar Review
Two Peach
Tinderbox Poetry Journal
So to Speak: A Feminist Journal
of Language and Art
The Southern Poetry Anthology,
Volume VII: North Carolina
FEE
North Carolina Literary Review
Atlantis
The Cellar Door
Asheville Poetry Review
Asheville Poetry Review
"The Prize," "Fast," "Once You've Left," "In Spite Of," & "Still Life with Citrus in February" (2023)
"In Kind" (2023)
"Lethe," "Trance," "Grammatical Number," & "Pink Light" (2022)
"Obituaries" (2022)
"Among the Nouns at the Apocalypse" (2022)
“Instructions for Finishing” & “Violence & Splendor” (2022)
“Pelt” (2021)
“And When He Told Her It Was Truly Over This Time” (2021)
“Dido” & “I Was a Liar” (2020)
“I Was an Ear” & “I Was a Wife” (2019)
“Ruin” & “Teething for Danger” (2019)
“The Year I Was Born” (2019)
“Infidelity,” “A Passing,” & “Material Dialectics” (2019)
“Black Mountain, Highway 9” & “Disclosures” (2015)
“Waking Without You” (2014)
“Fox,” “Another Ending for Aphrodite,” & “Determining the Worth (2013-2014)
“Thinking of Him” (2009)
“Honesty Sings the Blues,” “Honeymoon,” & “Prelude” (2009)
“Gardenia” (2006)
Fiction:
Film Reviews & Criticism:
Lit Hub
Open City Documentary Festival
Los Angeles Review of Books
"Becoming Others: Enacting the Transness of Virginia Woolf's Orlando" (2023)
"An Experience of an Impossible Form: On the Films of Mary Helena Clark" (2023)
"What the Center Holds: On Carl Elsaesser's 'Home When You Return'" (2023)
"Punkt Kontrapunkt: The Parallels of Maestro, Muse, and Maker in Todd Field's Tár "(2023)
"This Mess We're In: The Personal Clutter of Carolee Schneemann's Fuses" (2020)
"The Image is an Accident is a World: The Fragmentary Resilience of Kirsten Johnson's Cameraperson" (2019)
"Durational Distance: Select Memories of Sátántangó" (2019)
Essays:
Lit Hub
Los Angeles Review of Books
Cleveland Review of Books
The Adroit Journal
Cleveland Review of Books
The Rumpus
The Rumpus
Contrary Magazine
The Essay Daily
The Tempest
The Tempest
Little Patuxent Review
VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts
Brit + Co.
Bustle
VIDA: Women in Literary Arts
"How Iowa City, Hub of Literature, Became a Landmark for Cinephiles" (2023)
"Ripening and Rotting in the Uncanny Valley: On Sarah Rose Etter's 'Ripe'" (2023)
"The Writing Kind: On Kate Zambreno's 'The Light Room'" (2023)
"A Review of Chia-Lun Chang's Priscribee" (2023)
"A Pasture of Thought: On Reading Amina Cain's A Horse at Night" (2023)
"Not One Thing, But Many: A Review of Cynthia Cruz's Hotel Oblivion" (2022)
"Take a Good Look: Lisa Taddeo's Ghost Lover" (2022)
"Blush," "Revenge," & "Utterance" (2022)
“Being Alive Twice: A New Moon Report” (2021)
“Josephine Decker’s ‘Shirley’ (2020) taught me to live on my own terms as a woman” (October 2020)
“Leaving my Ph.D. program was the best decision I ever made” (2020)
“Fixed in a Moment of Fierce Attention: 13 Ways of Looking at Claire Underwood” (2018)
“The Silence of a Siren” (2017)
“I Got My First Driver’s License in my 20s – and It Saved My Relationship” (2017)
“Last Night, My Country Told Me I Don’t Matter – Today I’m Telling You I Do” (2016)
“Someday You Will Ache Like I Ache: What Sexualized Language Means to Me” (2014)
Scholarship:
Interviews:
University of Iowa Graduate College
"Bridging a passion for writing and experimental film" (2023)
"Aches" (2022)
“Art in the Afternoon” with Cory Hutchinson-Reuss (2022)
“Feminism, Pop-culture, & Selfveillance with Hannah Bonner” (2018)