Ailish Hopper

Ailish Hopper is the author of Dark~Sky Society (New Issues), and Bird in the Head, which was selected by Jean Valentine for the Center for Book Arts chapbook prize. Some places her poems have appeared include APR, Harvard Review Online, Ploughshares, POETRY, and Bill Moyers' Civic Poetry features. She's received support from MacDowell Colony, Maryland State Arts Council, and Yaddo, and her essays and nonfiction have appeared in Boston Review and A Sense of Regard: Poetry and Race. She lives in Baltimore and teaches at Goucher College.