Award-winning poet. Collector of images, vibes, & moods. Connector of people. Happy-crier.

 

Angela Voras-Hills is a poet, artist, & community organizer with over 20 years of experience in teaching, editing, community engagement, and event-planning. Her first collection of poems, Louder Birds (Pleiades 2020) was awarded the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize. Her poetry, essays, reviews, and hybrid work have appeared in The Sun, Kenyon Review Online, American Poetry Journal, Prairie Schooner, Tupelo Quarterly, and Best New Poets among other journals and anthologies. She has received support from Ragdale, The Sustainable Arts Foundation, Key West Literary Seminar, and Writers' Room of Boston. She lives with her family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a city she loves, where she runs The Book Drop Reading Series. 

Angela's creative and scholarly work engages with archival research, art, and the natural world to explore domestic ideologies, terror, grief, and the revolutionary potential of feminist poetics. She is into:

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Birdwatching

19th century British novels

E.B. White's essays

Cold War Propoganda

Sewing

Kayaking

Yoga

Dr. Mario

Speculative Fiction

Affect Theory

John Wilde

Taking pictures

Gathering people

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