Pasadena’s Red Hen Press will feature poets Nicole Stellon O’Donnell and Benjamin Saltman award winner M. Soledad Caballero on its Hen House At Home virtual series on Wednesday, September 8, starting at 4 p.m.
You can watch Hen House At Home on Red Hen Press’s virtual page, as well as on YouTube and Facebook Live.
Nicole Stellon O’Donnell was born and raised on Chicago’s South Side. In 1994, she moved to Fairbanks, Alaska, where she earned an MFA from the University of Alaska. Her first collection, “Steam Laundry,” won the 2013 WILLA Literary Award for Poetry. Her second book, “You Are No Longer in Trouble,” a memoir-in-flash about being a teacher, a student, and a principal’s daughter, was published in March 2019 from the Marie Alexander Series. Her third book, “Everything Never Comes Your Way,” a collection of poems, was published by Boreal Books last year.
O’Donnell’s essays and commentaries have appeared in the Anchorage Daily News on the Alaska Public Radio Network. She received both an Individual Artist Award and an Artist Fellowship from the Rasmuson Foundation, as well as a Boochever Fellowship and an Alaska Literary Award from the Alaska Arts and Culture Foundation. In 2014, she was winter writer-in-residence at Denali National Park. She spent the spring of 2016 in South India as a recipient of a Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching. She lives in Fairbanks, Alaska.
M Soledad Caballero is Associate Professor of English at Allegheny College. Her scholarly work focuses on British Romanticism, travel writing, post-colonial literature, WGSS (women’s gender and sexuality studies), and interdisciplinarity. Her poems have appeared in the Missouri Review, the Mississippi Review, the Iron Horse Literary Review, Memorius, and Crab Orchard. Her poetry manuscript-in-progress is titled “Immigrant Confessions” and explores immigration and migration, state violence, and masculinity.
Caballero is a 2017 CantoMundo fellow, has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes, has been a finalist for the Missouri Review’s Jeffry E. Smith poetry prize, the Mississippi Review’s annual editor’s prize, and the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award. Her poem “Myths We Tell” won the 2019 Joy Harjo poetry prize for “Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts.” Her poem “Before an MRI: a Questionnaire” won SWWIM’s 2020 SWWIM-For-the-Fun-of-It contest. Her poems have appeared in the Missouri Review, the Mississippi Review, the Iron Horse Literary Review, Memorius, the Crab Orchard Review, and other venues.
Caballero’s first collection titled “I Was a Bell” won the 2019 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award and will be published by Red Hen Press this fall.
To watch Hen House At Home for free, go to www.redhen.org/virtual, www.youtube.com/redhenpress, and www.facebook.com/redhenpress.
For more information, call (626) 356-4760 or visit www.redhen.org/event-calendar/
