Caroline Hagood

Caroline Hagood is the author of the poetry books, Lunatic Speaks (FutureCycle Press, 2012) and Making Maxine’s Baby (Hanging Loose Press, 2015); the creative nonfiction books, Ways of Looking at a Woman (Hanging Loose Press, 2019) and Weird Girls: Writing the Art Monster (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022); and the novels, Ghosts of America (Hanging Loose Press, 2021) and Filthy Creation (MadHat Press 2023).

Her book, Death and Other Speculative Fictions: An Essay in Prose Poems, is just out from Spuyten Duyvil Press. Her speculative memoir, Goblin Mode, shortlisted for the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Award, is forthcoming from Santa Fe Writers Project on September 2, 2025. Her book, Women of Fantasy in Their Own Words: Conversations with Contemporary Authors, edited with Sébastien Doubinsky, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury in December 2025.

At St. Francis College in Brooklyn, she is an Assistant Professor of Literature, Writing and Publishing; Director of Undergraduate Writing; MFA Creative Nonfiction Coordinator; and Assistant Director of the Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence (Assistant Director of Curriculum Design & Assessment Specialist).

Her work has appeared in publications including Electric Literature, Creative Nonfiction, LitHub, the Kenyon Review, the Huffington Post, the Guardian, Salon, and Elle.