Deborah Hauser

Suffolk County Poet Laureate, feminist, activist, certified ennui therapist, and fairy tale revisionist. Deborah Hauser is the author of Ennui: From the Diagnostic and Statistical Field Guide of Feminine Disorders (Finishing Line Press). Her poems and book reviews have been published in Ms. Magazine, Women’s Review of Books, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Bellevue Literary Review, Calyx, and elsewhere. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee. Her work explores the intersection of poetry and activism. She has taught literature and writing at Stony Brook University and Suffolk County Community College. She curates and hosts a monthly reading series at Jack Jack’s Coffee House for the Babylon Village Arts Council and is a Board Member of the Suffolk County Chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and Long Island Poetry & Literature Repository. She leads a double life on Long Island where she works in the insurance industry.