Ailish Hopper | |
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| Born | Washington, District of Columbia |
| Alma mater | Princeton University (A.B.) Bennington College (M.F.A.) |
| Employer | Goucher College |
| Website | http://www.ailishhopper.net/ |
Ailish Hopper is an American poet, writer and teacher.
Hopper released a chapbook titled Bird in the Head in 2005, and has since published a poetry collection called Dark~Sky Society (2014), which explores racial tensions. [1] In an interview with WYPR, she has noted her interest in race relations as being a consequence of her coming of age in DC and of her Irish heritage. [2] [3] Hopper's poetry has also been included in Agni, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Harvard Review Online, Tidal Basin Review, among others. [4] [5] In addition to page poetry, she has performed with the band Heroes are Gang Leaders, along with poets Thomas Sayers Ellis and Randall Horton, and saxophonist James Brandon Lewis. [6] [7] Hopper has also written essays about race relations, including one in Boston Review, "Can a Poem Listen? Variations on Being-white." [8]
Hopper graduated with an A.B. in religion and a certificate in African American studies from Princeton University in 1993 after completing a senior thesis under the supervision of Cornel West. [9] She later received an M.F.A. in creative writing and literature from Bennington College. She has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Vermont Studio, and Yaddo. Until 2025 she was an associate professor in Goucher College's peace studies department. [10]
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