Autumn Noelle Hall

For well over a decade, Colorado writer Autumn Noelle Hall’s short form poetry has appeared internationally in distinguished literary journals and anthologies, garnering her a reputation for self-aware autobiography, unsparing socio-political commentary, and environmental activism. Living and writing in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, she draws on her natural surroundings and daily interactions with the native flora and fauna—Columbine, Ponderosa Pine, Black Bears, and Mountain Lions have all found their way into her poems. From 2016-2018, Hall served as the inaugural Tanka Prose Editor for the Tanka Society of America’s print journal, Ribbons. In 2019, Atlas Poetica published her Special Feature, Turn the Other Cheek: Nonviolent Resistance and Peaceful Protest Tanka. In 2020, her tanka observing the global Covid crisis won first place in Japan’s Fujisan Taisho competition. Hall's collaborative book, Tanka Quartets, co-authored with long-time Ribbons Editor, David C. Rice, debuted in August of 2020. She was honored to serve as co-judge with Don Miller for TSA's 2021 Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest. In 2022, Hall founded The Tanka Studio, a member-only-feature in Ribbons following in the 20-year-long tradition of Michael McClintock’s Tanka Cafe, and collaborated with poets around the world to produce three issues. Since 2023, she has taken a step back from public poetry life to reclaim tanka as a personal spiritual practice. From this blossomed Walking Widdershins: An Ode to Joy, a book of interconnected tanka meditations, co-authored by award-winning poet Jenny Ward Angyal and introducing inspired illustrator, Denver Kennedy Hall, which released on August 17th of 2024.