Hannah Rodabaugh is a poet, essayist, and writing teacher who lives in Boise, Idaho. She holds an MA from Miami University and an MFA from Naropa University.
She is the author of Lost Cathedral (Forthcoming, 2025, Portage Poetry Series / Cornerstone Press / University of Wisconsin), The Leonids, With Words: Verse in Concordance (dancing girl press), We Traced The Shape Of Our Loss To See Your Face (Angel House Press), and We Don’t Bury Our Dead When Our Dead Are Animals (Another New Calligraphy), a Pushcart-nominated collection of ecological elegies.
Her poetry and essays are included or forthcoming in The Indianapolis Review, Camas Magazine, Blueline Magazine, Glassworks Magazine, Evening Street Review, Humana Obscura, Plant-Human Quarterly, The Westchester Review, Canary: A Journal of the Environmental Crisis, the Michigan State University Library Short Edition series, Green Linden Press, Wild Roof Journal, EcoTheo Review, Word for Word, Where is the River :: A Poetry Experiment, The Wire’s Dream Magazine, Anti-Narrative Journal, Berkeley Poetry Review, Nerve Lantern, Used Furniture Review, Smoking Glue Gun, Horse Less Press Review, Roar Magazine, Rat’s Ass Review, Rabid Oak, Written River, K’in Literary Journal, Linden Avenue Literary Journal, The Cabin’s Writers in the Home series, The Cabin’s Writers in the Attic anthology series, the Flim Forum Press anthology A Sing Economy, and elsewhere. She was a 2018 Pushcart Prize nominee. You can find an interview about her writing process at The Wire’s Dream Magazine.
Her poetry was included in the Boise Art Museum as part of the year-long exhibit Tall Tales: Narratives From The Permanent Collection and in the Boise City Archives as part of their COVID Community Collection. You can read about the process of creating poetry for the exhibit in an interview at Greenbelt Magazine. She has poetry forthcoming as part of a public art project for the Eagle Art Stop Program.
She was a 2020 Artist-in-Residence for Surel’s Place, a 2019 Artist-in-Residence for Oregon Caves National Monument, a 2019 Artist-in-Residence for Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area, a 2018 Artist-in-Residence for Boise Public Library, and a 2017 Artist-in-Residence for Craters of the Moon National Monument. You can hear excerpts from poetry she wrote at Craters of the Moon here. Recent residencies included The Rice Place in OR, Sou’wester Arts in WA, and the Whiteley Center (University of Washington) in WA.
She’s received grants from the COVID Cultural Commissioning Fund, the Idaho Commission on the Arts, and the Alexa Rose Foundation, among others. She is a 2024 Literature Fellowship recipient for the Idaho Commission on the Arts.
She’s performed her poetry at over 90 readings across the United States. Recent readings include the Death Rattle Writer Festival’s 9th anniversary showcase, the Pacific Northwest Poets Showcase at the Storyfort literary festival, the MING Studios 7 O’Clock Reading Series, on KRBX Radio Boise as part of The Poetry Show and the Stray Theater Variety Show, the Lit Youngstown First Wednesday Series, the Idaho Botanical Garden’s BLOOM Summer Reading Series, and as part of the CCC Fund Community Showcase at the Velma V. Morrison Center for Performing Arts.
She is an English instructor at Boise State University and the College of Western Idaho and a creative writing instructor for Catalyst Arts Collaborative and The Cabin, Idaho’s only literary center. She was a co-organizer for both Ghosts & Projectors: A Poetry Reading Series and Voices of the Earth, a yearly Earth Day reading series hosted through Boise State University’s Department of Sustainability. She has volunteered as a judge for Poetry Out Loud Idaho, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, the Wassmuth Center for Human Rights, and the Alexa Rose Foundation and wrote book reviews for [PANK]. Previously, she taught at Naropa University, Miami University, Community College of Denver, Front Range Community College, and the Idaho Botanical Garden.
Her work is often hybrid, multidisciplinary, ecopoetic, or ekphrastic. Her forthcoming poetry collection humanizes conservation issues surrounding the loss of habitat and biodiversity during the Anthropocene. Her current project is a collection that makes the invisible visible through the lens of themes like plant poaching and microplastics. Her interests include environmental art and writing, soundscape ecology (bioacoustics), birding, caving, plants, habitat restoration, musicology, and herstory.
She volunteers for the Idaho Trails Association and the City of Boise, where she has helped with sagebrush habitat restoration, and the Golden Eagle Audubon Society, where she serves on the GEAS education committee and is a curriculum instructor for the Golden Eagle Academy. She is a member of the Cloud Appreciation Society and the Idaho Native Plant Society. You can find her on iNaturalist (her favorite citizen science app).
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