Hannah Butcher

b. 1999

Current City, State, Country

Fair Lawn, New Jersey, USA

Birth City, State, Country

Gainesville, Florida, USA

Biography

Hannah Butcher-Stell is a Writing MFA candidate at Sarah Lawrence College, holding a bachelor’s degree in English from Rollins College. You can find her co-authored fiction in Sky Island Journal, Newfound Journal, and The Headlight Review. Meanwhile, her poetry has won the Academy of American Poets’ Goettling Prize and has also appeared in Sequestrum and No, Dear. She currently works as Poetry Editor of Lumina, Sarah Lawrence\’s literary journal, and as Communications Manager for Daily Giving, a growing Jewish nonprofit.

Author Site

Author Site

Links to Sample Works

No, Dear, “Woman”
Sequestrum, “To the Mortician” and “Company”
Academy of American Poets, “Moral Compass”

Current Title

Communications Manager, Daily Giving

Education

Undergraduate:
Major in English with Creative Writing and Jewish Studies Minors, Rollins College (2018-2022)

Graduate:
MFA in Poetry, Sarah Lawrence College (2023-Present)

Subject Matter

Childhood, Cultural Identity, Diaspora, Disability, Family, Feminism, Jewish Mysticism, Jewishness, Loss, Love, Marriage, Midrash, Motherhood/Fertility, Multidisciplinary, Mythology, Narrative, Nature, Parenting, Shoah, Genocide, Torah

Genre

Fiction, Poetry