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Hannah Bonner is a writer, film programmer, and educator. She is a 2023-2024 National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critics Fellow, the Creative Nonfiction Editor for Brink, the Film Editor for TriQuarterly, and a CLAS Postgraduate Visiting Writer in Creative Nonfiction at the University of Iowa. Another Woman (EastOver Press 2024) is her first book.
To order a copy of Another Woman:
Literary Agent: Madeline Ticknor at Janklow & Nesbit
Follow her on Instagram @hannah__bonner
MFA in Creative Nonfiction from University of Iowa (2024)
MA in Film Studies from University of Iowa (2017)
BA in English & Creative Writing from UNC-Chapel Hill (2010)
Selected Publications
Poetry:
River Styx
Blackbird
Sleet Magazine
Cutleaf
The Hopkins Review
The Carolina Quarterly
Bear Review
TriQuarterly
Volume Poetry
Small Orange
The LaHave Review
Rattle
The West Review
Pigeon Pages
Schlag Magazine
The Pinch Journal
PromptPress
The Vassar Review
Two Peach
Tinderbox Poetry Journal
So to Speak: A Feminist Journal
of Language and Art
The Southern Poetry Anthology,
Volume VII: North Carolina
FEE
North Carolina Literary Review
Atlantis
The Cellar Door
Asheville Poetry Review
Asheville Poetry Review
"The Ordering of Vision," "Film Studies," "The Storm," & "Datum" (2025)
"Without Warning" & "Pastoral" (2025)
"Object of Vision," "Archaeology," "The Ordering of Narrative," "Supernova," & "Male Violence" (2025)
"The Prize," "Fast," "Once You've Left," "In Spite Of," & "Still Life with Citrus in February" (2023)
"In Kind" (2023)
"Lethe," "Trance," "Grammatical Number," & "Pink Light" (2022)
"Obituaries" (2022)
"Among the Nouns at the Apocalypse" (2022)
“Instructions for Finishing” & “Violence & Splendor” (2022)
“Pelt” (2021)
“And When He Told Her It Was Truly Over This Time” (2021)
“Dido” & “I Was a Liar” (2020)
“I Was an Ear” & “I Was a Wife” (2019)
“Ruin” & “Teething for Danger” (2019)
“The Year I Was Born” (2019)
“Infidelity,” “A Passing,” & “Material Dialectics” (2019)
“Black Mountain, Highway 9” & “Disclosures” (2015)
“Waking Without You” (2014)
“Fox,” “Another Ending for Aphrodite,” & “Determining the Worth (2013-2014)
“Thinking of Him” (2009)
“Honesty Sings the Blues,” “Honeymoon,” & “Prelude” (2009)
“Gardenia” (2006)
Fiction:
Film Reviews & Criticism:
The Brooklyn Rail
Reverse Shot
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
Los Angeles Review of Books
Millenium Film Journal
Screen Slate
The Brooklyn Rail
Los Angeles Review of Books
Open City Documentary Festival
Reverse Shot
Literary Hub
Literary Hub
Los Angeles Review of Books
Literary Hub
Open City Documentary Festival
Los Angeles Review of Books
"Another Spell of Light" (2025)
"Modern Nature: On First Look's Illuminations" (2025)
"Intimate Exchanges: The Films of Ayanna Dozier" (2025)
"The Dog Days Are...Back?" (2024)
"Activating an Oppositional Focus: Prismatic Ground Film Festival" (2024)
"Crossroads 2024" (2024)
"The Body of the Body: Examining the Films of Lynne Sachs" (2024)
"Keeping Up with the Klimate" (2024)
"Intimate Inscriptions: Four Films on Writing" (2024)
"Illuminations: Elsewhere/Here" (2024)
"Feminine Appetites in Todd Haynes's 'May December'" (2023)
"Sweet Nothings: On the Emptiness of Sofia Coppola's 'Priscilla'" (2023)
"Echoes of the Original: On the Task of Translating Maria Schneider" (2023)
"Becoming Others: Enacting the Transness of Virginia Woolf's Orlando" (2023)
"An Experience of an Impossible Form: On the Films of Mary Helena Clark" (2023)
"What the Center Holds: On Carl Elsaesser's 'Home When You Return'" (2023)
"Punkt Kontrapunkt: The Parallels of Maestro, Muse, and Maker in Todd Field's Tár "(2023)
"This Mess We're In: The Personal Clutter of Carolee Schneemann's Fuses" (2020)
"The Image is an Accident is a World: The Fragmentary Resilience of Kirsten Johnson's Cameraperson" (2019)
"Durational Distance: Select Memories of Sátántangó" (2019)
Book Reviews & Essays:
Hyperallergic
The Sewanee Review
The Adroit Journal
The Sewanee Review
The Sewanee Review
The Sewanee Review
Senses of Cinema
Literary Hub
Los Angeles Review of Books
Cleveland Review of Books
The Adroit Journal
Cleveland Review of Books
The Rumpus
The Rumpus
Contrary Magazine
The Essay Daily
The Tempest
The Tempest
Little Patuxent Review
VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts
Brit + Co.
Bustle
VIDA: Women in Literary Arts
"When Writing Criticism Feels Like Pouring Time Down the Sink" (2024)
"Marginalia: Eva Baltasar's Boulder" (2024)
"A Review of Diannely Antigua's Good Monster" (2024)
"Husbands & Wives: On Sarah Manguso's Liars" (2024)
"Marginalia: Eliza Barry Callahan" (2024)
"This Sort of Thing: On Heather Lewis's Notice" (2024)
"How Iowa City, Hub of Literature, Became a Landmark for Cinephiles" (2023)
"Ripening and Rotting in the Uncanny Valley: On Sarah Rose Etter's 'Ripe'" (2023)
"The Writing Kind: On Kate Zambreno's 'The Light Room'" (2023)
"A Review of Chia-Lun Chang's Priscribee" (2023)
"A Pasture of Thought: On Reading Amina Cain's A Horse at Night" (2023)
"Not One Thing, But Many: A Review of Cynthia Cruz's Hotel Oblivion" (2022)
"Take a Good Look: Lisa Taddeo's Ghost Lover" (2022)
"Blush," "Revenge," & "Utterance" (2022)
“Being Alive Twice: A New Moon Report” (2021)
“Josephine Decker’s ‘Shirley’ (2020) taught me to live on my own terms as a woman” (October 2020)
“Leaving my Ph.D. program was the best decision I ever made” (2020)
“Fixed in a Moment of Fierce Attention: 13 Ways of Looking at Claire Underwood” (2018)
“The Silence of a Siren” (2017)
“I Got My First Driver’s License in my 20s – and It Saved My Relationship” (2017)
“Last Night, My Country Told Me I Don’t Matter – Today I’m Telling You I Do” (2016)
“Someday You Will Ache Like I Ache: What Sexualized Language Means to Me” (2014)
Scholarship:
Interviews & Reviews:
BOMB
The Creative Independent
Kirkus Reviews
Booklife Review
"Hannah Bonner & Rachel Schwartzmann" (2025)
"On learning to prioritize your creative practice" (2024)
"Another Woman" (2024)
"Editor's Pick: Another Woman" (2024)