Todd Hearon (born ^[when?]) is an American poet, songwriter, dramatist and fiction writer. He is the author of three collections of poems -- STRANGE LAND, NO OTHER GODS and CROWS IN EDEN -- a number of plays and essays, and a novella, DO GEESE SEE GOD. His first full-length studio album is BORDER RADIO, featuring thirteen original songs in the Americana and folk/folk-rock tradition. He lives in Exeter, New Hampshire and teaches literature and songwriting at Phillips Exeter Academy.

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Awards

• Poet-in-Residence, Dartmouth College and The Frost Place
• Dobie-Paisano Creative Writing Fellowship/University of Texas, Austin
• Paul Green Playwrights Prize
• Crab Orchard Award/Southern Illinois University Press
• PEN New England/"Discovery" Award
• Rumi Prize in Poetry/Arts & Letters
• Friends of Literature Prize/Poetry magazine and the Poetry Foundation
• Campbell Corner Poetry Prize/Sarah Lawrence College
• Songwriters Prize, First Place (for Lyrics)/American Songwriter Magazine

Works

Strange Land (Winner of the Crab Orchard Award, judged by Natasha Trethewey, Southern Illinois University Press, 2010)

No Other Gods (Salmon Poetry, 2015)

Crows in Eden (forthcoming, Salmon Poetry, 2022)

DO GEESE SEE GOD (forthcoming, Neutral Zones Press, 2021)

An online selection of poems can be found here:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/todd-hearon

https://www.memorious.org/?author=27

https://www.thecommononline.org/tag/todd-hearon/

https://agnionline.bu.edu/about/our-people/authors/todd-hearon

https://www.cincinnatireview.com/tag/todd-hearon/

References

External links

https://www.toddhearon.com

https://toddhearon.bandcamp.com/album/border-radio