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. They are an incoming Max Ritvo Poetry Fellow at Columbia University's MFA Poetry program.
chapbooks
Banana Pancakes - Rockwood Press
Romanticization of Grief and Ghosts - Bottlecap Press
press
‘Banana Pancakes’: Annalisa Hansford ’25 puts community at the forefront of healing in new poetry chapbook - The Berkeley Beacon
Author Interview: Annalisa Hansford, Romanticization of Grief and Ghosts - The Madhouse Review
On Grief and Ghosts: A Conversation with Annalisa Hansford - Pub Club Online
Review of Romanticization of Grief and Ghosts - 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
"July 27, 2020" - River and South Review (Forthcoming)
"Professional Dyke" - Thimble (Forthcoming)
"Distance" - Blue Crystal (Forthcoming)
"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" - Poets.org
"Ode to Lorelai and Rory Gilmore" - BRAWL
"My Lover Tells Me Today Is the One Year Anniversary of Their Suicide Attempt" - Furrow
"Ode to the Memories I've Made in Boston" - ONE ART
"Portrait of My Friendship With a Narcissist" - Ghost City Review
"Last Night, I Had a Nightmare That My Elementary School, Along With My Childhood Memories, Caught on Fire" - Heavy Feather Review
“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
Recipient, Columbia University: Max Ritvo Fellowship (2026)
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)