Dr. Hannah Saltmarsh

Expertise: Composition, Poetry and Poetics Hannah Baker Saltmarsh is the author of the poetry collection, Hysterical Water (Univ of Georgia Press, 2021) and the critical book, Male Poets and the Agon of the Mother (Univ of South Carolina Press, 2019). She has published essays and poems in The New Republic, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, AGNI, Feminist Studies, Women’s Studies Quarterly, and others. She is currently writing about Toni Morrison’s depiction of daughter-artists as well as a book of criticism about second-wave feminisms and motherhood in literature, across genres. Her second book of poetry, in manuscript, “cures for deep wounds,” concerns motherhood, reproductive and environmental justice, and unacknowledged women scientists and midwives. Areas of interest include poetry, Toni Morrison, motherhood, and medical humanities.