WRITERS IN THE FAMILY: Poet John Hodgen and Writer Christie Hodgen

Poet John Hodgen and Writer CHRISTIE HODGEN.are also the writers in their family as they are father and daughter.

John Hodgen is the Writer-in-Residence at Assumption University in Worcester, MA, and Advisory Editor for New Letters at the University of Missouri in Kansas City. Hodgen won the AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry for Grace (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005) and his fifth book, The Lord of Everywhere, is out from Lynx House/University of Washington. His new book, What We May Be, is just out, also from Lynx House. In addition to publishing poems in AQR and other journals, he has won the Grolier Prize for Poetry, an Arvon Foundation Award, the Yankee Magazine Award for Poetry, the Bluestem Award, the Balcones Prize, the Foley Prize, the Chad Walsh Prize from Beloit Poetry Journal, the Collins Prize from Birmingham Poetry Review, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Award in Poetry, and has had a poem included in Scribner’s Best American Poetry 2017.

Christie Hodgen is the author of four books of fiction: Boy Meets Girl (New Issues 2022); Elegies for the Brokenhearted (W.W. Norton & Co., 2010); Hello, I Must Be Going (W.W. Norton & Co., 2006); and A Jeweler’s Eye for Flaw (UMASS 2003). She has published short stories and essays in dozens of literary journals and anthologies, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, Conjunctions, American Short Fiction, The Georgia Review, and The Southern Review. Her work has received several national awards, including two Pushcart Prizes, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship. She is a Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Missouri Kansas City and has served as the editor-in-Chief of New Letters magazine since 2020.