ABOUT

Margaret Hanshaw is a poet from Sudbury, Massachusetts. She earned her BA from Hamilton College and her MFA from Vermont College, with additional study in English and Scottish literature at the University of Edinburgh. She worked as an editor in book and magazine publishing for more than 25 years, most recently at Harvard Business Review. Her poems have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, New American Writing, West Branch, Bennington Review, Verse Daily, VOLT, Vallum, Posit, Prelude, Poetry East, and elsewhere. She is the author of the chapbook Yellow Ripe (dancing girl press). Outside of writing, she divides her time between family life, reading submissions for Pangyrus, volunteering for Amnesty International, and making handmade jewelry, now sold at 6 Bridges Gallery in Maynard, Massachusetts. (See quietskydesigns.com for more information about her jewelry.)