Danielle Hanson strives to create and facilitate wonder. She is author of Fraying Edge of Sky, winner of the Codhill Press Poetry Prize, and Ambushing Water, finalist for the Georgia Author of the Year Award. She is Marketing Director for Sundress Publications and serves on their Editorial Board. She teaches poetry at the University of California, Irvine.
Reading a new book by an admired writer offers the chance to recapture the familiar pleasures of their previous work—the equivalent of ordering your favorite dish at a restaurant again, comparing it to the version that only lives in your memory.