Annalisa Hansford

Photograph by Paolo Brandon

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 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.

writing
honors & experience
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chapbook

Banana Pancakes - Rockwood Press (Forthcoming)

Romanticization of Grief and Ghosts - Bottlecap Press

press

On Grief and Ghosts: A Conversation with Annalisa Hansford by Leanna Florez - Pub Club Online

Review of Romanticization of Grief and Ghosts by Jahmayla Pointer - Sundress Reads

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

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

poems

"Unspoken Sonnet" - Moonflake Press (Forthcoming)

"Banana Pancakes" - 1455's Moveable Type

"First Love Crossword" - Boston City Hall

"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

“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

Nominee, Monarch Queer Literary Awards: "Garden Sonnet" in petrichor (2025)

Participant, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop with Victoria Chang (2025)

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)

Participant, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop with Gabrielle Calvocoressi (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)