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 coordination. Her first collection of poems, Louder Birds (Pleiades 2020) was awarded the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize. Her poetry, essays, reviews, and hybrid work have been published 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 motherhood poetics. She is into:

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Birdwatching, Camping, Kayaking

19th century British Novels

E.B. White's essays

Analog arts

Cold War Propaganda

The history of motherhood

Feminist perspectives on culture and media 

The art of John Wilde (and other surrealists)

Gathering people in meaningful ways