Poetry. "Hansel takes the stuff of her life—that first person world—and spins a web which takes in all of us who have lived awhile. We travel through her poems blessed 'with light for (our) journey,' feeling not like voyeurs but companions for whom, Hansel claims, 'I must still give thanks.' Enlarged by our journey, we offer our thanks back to her"—Dana Wildsmith.

Author City: Cincinnati, OH USA

Pauletta Hansel's poetry has been featured recently in journals including Wind, ABZ Journal, Southern Women's Review, Still: The Journal, The Mom Egg, Penwood Review, and Appalachian Journal, and anthologized in Motif: Come What May and Boomtown: the Queens MFA Tenth Anniversary Celebratory Anthology. Collections include Divining, (WovenWord Press, 2001) First Person (Dos Madres Press, 2007), The Lives We Live in Houses (Wind Publications, 2011), and WHAT I DID THERE (Dos Madres Press, 2011). She is a current editor of Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel, the literary publication of Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative. Pauletta received her MFA from Queens University of Charlotte. She lives in Cincinnati with her husband, Owen Cramer.