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Listed as:

Poet, Fiction Writer

Public address:

Exeter, NH

New Hampshire US

Email:

toddhearon@yahoo.com

Bio:

Todd Hearon is a poet, fiction writer, playwright and songwriter. He's the author of three collections of poems--Strange Land (2010), No Other Gods (2015) and Crows in Eden (2022)--a novella, Do Geese See God (2021) and a number of plays, including Wives of the Dead, winner of the Paul Green Playwrights Prize. His three studio albums are Border Radio (2021), Yodelady (2023) and Impossible Man (2024). He's served as the Poet-in-Residence at Dartmouth College and The Frost Place and was a Dobie Paisano Fellow at the University of Texas in Austin. His plays have been produced at the Boston Center for the Arts and The Boston Playwrights Theater.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Born in:

Fort Worth, TX

Texas

Raised in:

Waynesville, NC

North Carolina

Website:

https://www.toddhearon.com [2]

Prizes won:

2024 Finalist/Runner-up, International Acoustic Music Awards (Folk/Americana/Roots);

2023 Finalist, New Hampshire Literary Awards (Poetry) for Crows in Eden;

2022 Visiting Poet, Beall Poetry Festival, Baylor University;

2019 First Prize, Lyrics Award, American Songwriter Magazine (April/May);

2015 Finalist, Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, Waywiser Books;

2014 Campbell Corner Poetry Prize, Sarah Lawrence College;

2014 Finalist, Lexi Rudnitsky/Editors Choice Award, Persea Books;

2014 Finalist, Frost Place Fellowship;

2014 Finalist, May Swenson Poetry Award;

2014 Finalist, Vassar Miller Poetry Prize;

2010 Rumi Poetry Prize, Arts & Letters Journal of Contemporary Culture;

2009 Crab Orchard Poetry Series Open Competition Winner (for book of poems, Strange Land), chosen by Natasha Trethewey;

2007 Friends of Literature Prize, Poetry magazine and the Poetry Foundation;

2007 PEN/New England “Discovery” Award;

2003 Finalist, Morton Marr Poetry Award, Southwest Review;

2003 Finalist, Heideman Award, Actors’ Theatre of Louisville;

2002 Translation Award, The SHOp: A Magazine of Poetry;

2000 Paul Green Playwrights Prize;

2000 Robert Fitzgerald Translation Award

Prefers to work with:

Any