This event is virtual-only (via Zoom) and is open to Helen Zell Writers' Program MFA students and Zell Fellows, as well as U-M graduate and undergraduate students. It is not open to the general public. Please email Julie Cadman-Kim (kimjulie@umich.edu) for login instructions.

Hannah's presentation, “Gathering Fallen Fruit: Arranging the Poetry Collection’s Opening Sequence,” will focus on the ordering process that transforms a group of poems into a coherent manuscript, placing special emphasis on the book’s beginning choreography.

Hannah Matheson received her MFA in poetry at New York University, where she served as poetry editor of Washington Square Review. Previously awarded scholarships to attend The Frost Place Conference on Poetry, Hannah has poems published or forthcoming in Four Way Review, The Adroit Journal, Small Orange Journal, Pigeon Pages, Solar, Image Journal, Honey Lit, Best New Poets, HAD, and elsewhere. Hannah currently works as senior editor at Four Way Books.

In her time at Four Way Books so far, Hannah has served as editor for over 25 books, including: indecent hours by James Fujinami Moore, winner of the GLCA New Writers Award and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry; Cutlish by Rajiv Mohabir, Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, Eric Hoffer Book Award, and New England Book Award and Longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Award in Poetry and Mass Book Award; and Yesenia Montilla’s Muse Found in a Colonized Body, Finalist for the NAACP Image Award and an Eric Hoffer Book Award Honorable Mention.

In addition, Hannah launched the Four Way Books project Coordinates: A Podcast for Writers and Readers last year at Miami Book Fair with panelists Nathan McClain, Matthew Olzmann, and Ryan Murphy and co-host KT Herr. Coordinates is a long-form quarterly series that combines panels with publishing professionals, interviews with featured authors, a rapid-fire Q&A between literary pals, and generative prompts in each episode. So far, Coordinates has hosted esteemed guests Nathan McClain, Tommye Blount, James Fujinami Moore, Megan Pinto, Diane Goettel, Marissa Davis, Eugenia Leigh, and Joan Kwon Glass, with more talents to come in future installments.