Maggie Hess

Poet

Bristol, TN
Tennessee US
Email: 
beautyitselfispurpose@gmail.com
Website: 
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Author's Bio

Maggie Hess has written and illustrated many books. She gets her inspiration from the differently abled people she walks with every day. They are her driving force!

Publications & Prizes

Journals:
A! Magazine for the Arts
,
Alehouse Press
,
Aurorean
,
Blue Fifth Review
,
Cobalt Review
,
Friends Journal
,
Hobart
,
Indian Review
,
Milk Sugar
,
Postcard Poems and Prose
,
S/tick
,
The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
,
Tule Review
,
Visitant
Prizes won: 

"My Ritual” Awarded May B. Smith English Composition Award for April 2010. “Peace in Role Play” awarded the Leidig Poetry Prize and published in A! Magazine, 2006. Awarded Second Place in the First-Year Essay Contest, 2002.  Honorable mention in Wild Leek's Chapbook Contest judged by Ron Rash, 2017.  Finalist for Folio Prize in Poetry at Fourth River 2019.

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Errol Hess, Elizabeth Vega, Libby Jones, Rumi, Basho, Issa, Peace Pilgrim, Kelly McGonigal, Kamo no Chomei, Toko pa Turner. Mary Oliver.
What I'm reading now: 
Norton Anthology by Margaret Ferguson , Atomic Habits by James Clear

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Appalachian, Disabled
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Scott County, Virginia
Raised in: 
Bristol, TN
Tennessee
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Last update: Dec 12, 2021