Annalisa Hansford

Annalisa Hansford (they/them) is the author of Romanticization of Grief and Ghosts (Bottlecap Press 2025). Their poetry has received honors from Academy of American Poets and 1455 Literary Arts. They studied poetry with Gabrielle Calvocoressi at the 2024 Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. They intern at the Grolier Poetry Bookshop in Cambridge where one of their favorite poets, Frank O’Hara, used to frequent. They love the colors mint blue and army green, Frank Sinatra, and mailing postcards to strangers.

writing
honors & experience
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chapbook

Romanticization of Grief and Ghosts - Bottlecap Press

press

Romanticization of Grief and Ghosts, Reviewed by Eric Baker - Hominum Journal

‘Romanticization of Ghosts and Grief’: Finding community through poetry - The Berkeley Beacon

With The Aurora Journal, one Brookline student wants to expand opportunities for emerging writers - The Boston Globe

poems

"Garden Sonnet" - petrichor

"Abecedarian for My Future Lover" - The Lumiere Review, Poets.org

"The Girl Who Wore My Teeth as Jewelry" - Dreamworldgirl Zine

"Ode to Lorelai and Rory Gilmore" - BRAWL

"My Lover Tells Me Today Is the One Year Anniversary of Their Suicide Attempt" - Furrow

"Anatomy of Grief" - Snaggletooth Magazine

"Ode to the Memories I've Made in Boston" - ONE ART

"Portrait of My Friendship With a Narcissist" - Ghost City Review

“Portrait of Loving a Girl Like a Religion,” “Poem in Which I Learn to Purge My Body of Want,” “Somewhere, in an alternate universe,” “My Therapist Asks Me to Remember the Day I Realized I Can Only Want Someone if They Don’t Want Me,” and “It’s Been Years Since I’ve Received a Phone Call from My Emptiness” - Isele Magazine

"Last Night, I Had a Nightmare That My Elementary School, Along With My Childhood Memories, Caught on Fire" - Heavy Feather Review

"Portrait Of Everyone I've Ever Loved Who Never Loved Me Back" - Anti-Heroin Chic

"poem in which you can’t hurt me" - Vagabond City

"call me the anti-hero," "love triangle between ohio, boston, and vermont" - Ice Lolly Review

“portrait of my ex-girlfriend’s mouth” - The West Review

"love letter to valentine's day" - The Aurora Journal

"when a cis person asks me if trans people are birthed from tenderness or violence, i tell them" - 1455

"i fall in love with you in a stranger’s basement on halloween as controversy by prince plays in the background" - The Aurora Journal

"three course meal" -The Hearth Magazine

honors

Longlist, Dawn Prize for Poetry: "Garden Sonnet" (2024)

Nominee, Best of the Net: "Ode to Lorelai and Rory Gilmore" in BRAWL (2024)

Winner, Academy of American Poets College Prize: "Abecedarian for My Future Lover" (2024)

Longlist, Isele Magazine Poetry Prize: 5 poems (2024)

Nominee, Best of the Net: "When my mother told her husband she was pregnant" in Emerge Literary Journal (2022)

Second Place, 1455's Young Poets Contest: "when a cis person asks me if trans people are birthed from tenderness or violence, i tell them" (2022)

Adult Winner, Joliet Poetry Contest: "Obituary for Poetry, Memory, and Time" (2022)

Longlist, Grindstone Literary Poetry Prize: "July 27, 2020" (2020)

editorial

Sundress Publications, Reader Board Member (2023—)

Hominum Journal, Poetry Editor (2023—)

The Emerson Review, Head Poetry Editor (2023—)

hand picked poetry, Co-Founder & Co-Editor-in-Chief (2022—)