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Coker Visiting Writer Reading: Hannah Marshall
February 24 @ 8:00 pm
The Converse Creative and Professional Writing program will host award-winning poet, and MFA in creative writing alumna, Hannah Marshall on Tuesday, February 24, 2026, at 8:00 PM in Zimmerli Common Room. Marshall will read from her debut book, Leaf Collection, winner of the Converse MFA Alumni Book Prize. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.
Hannah Marshall is an award-winning poet who currently lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she works as a public librarian. Marshall’s poem “This Is a Love Poem to Trees” was selected by former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith for The Best American Poetry 2021. Marshall’s poems have also appeared in Poetry Daily, New Ohio Review, The South Carolina Review, Atlanta Review, The Madison Review, Wisconsin Review, The American Journal of Poetry, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Converse University.
Leaf Collection is published by Clemson University press through the Clemson-Converse Literature Series.
