Hayden Saunier

Hayden Saunier’s sixth poetry collection, Wheel, was published by Terrapin Books in 2024 and her poems have been awarded a Pushcart Prize, the Pablo Neruda Prize, the Rattle Poetry Prize, and the Kenneth and Geraldine Gell Poetry Prize. Her work appears in 32 Poems, Thrush, Southern Poetry Review, The Sun, Virginia Quarterly Review, and is featured on Poetry Daily, the Writer’s Almanac, and Verse Daily. Hayden is the founder/director of No River Twice, an interactive poetry performance group. She grew up in Charlottesville.
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