Annalisa Hansford

Annalisa Hansford (they/them) is the author of Romanticization of Grief and Ghosts (Bottlecap Press, 2025) and Banana Pancakes (Rockwood Press, 2026). Their poetry has received honors from the Academy of American Poets and the Boston Mayor's Poetry Program. They've studied poetry with Gabrielle Calvocoressi and Victoria Chang at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. They previously interned at the Grolier Poetry Bookshop in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where one of their favorite poets, Frank O’Hara, used to frequent. They love the colors mint blue and army green, matcha, and writing letters to the people they love. They are a professional dyke. To contact them, you can email [email protected]

chapbooks

Banana Pancakes - Rockwood Press

Romanticization of Grief and Ghosts - Bottlecap Press

poems

Theory of Relativity - Full House Literary (Forthcoming)

"Garden Sonnet" - petrichor, republished in Monarch Queer Literary Awards

"Unspoken Sonnet" - Moonflake Press

"Banana Pancakes" - 1455's Moveable Type

"First Love Crossword" - Boston City Hall

"Abecedarian for My Future Lover" - The Lumiere Review, republished in 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

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

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

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

honors

Awardee, Monarch Queer Literary Awards Anthology: "Garden Sonnet" in petrichor (2026)

Selected, Boston Mayor's Poetry Program: "First Love Crossword" (2025)

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)

Longlist, Fifth Wheel Press Manuscript Submissions: Romanticization of Grief and Ghosts (2023)

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)