Ailish Hopper

Ailish Hopper is the author of Dark~Sky Society (New Issues) and the chapbook, Bird in the Head (Center for Book Arts). Her poems have appeared in APR, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, among others. Her essays on race and social change have appeared in Boston Review, A Sense of Regard: Poetry and Race, and other places. She's received support from MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Maryland Arts Council.

A longtime teacher in the peace studies program at Goucher College, she collaborates with community in Baltimore MD. Follow her @ailishhopper on twitter, & find recent news at www.ailishhopper.net.