a hearth for Jewish poetry

Hannah Butcher

Communications Manager, Daily Giving

Birth Year
b. 1999
Current City
Fair Lawn, New Jersey, USA
Birth City
Gainesville, Florida, USA
Genre(s)
Poetry, Fiction
Author’s Website

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.

Links to Sample Works

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

Subject Matter

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