Biography
Helen Hofling is a Baltimore-based writer, editor, and artist. Her work appears in Berkeley Poetry Review, The Columbia Review, Electric Literature, The Hopkins Review, Lambda Literary's Poetry Spotlight, Passages North, Prelude, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a series of visual poems with a focus on text-image interaction. Her main research interests include contemporary poetry, visual poetry, prose poetry, and queer literatures. Hofling has been teaching in the Writing Department at Loyola since 2018. She also teaches and tutors with the Goucher Prison Education Partnership and is a member of the PEN Prison and Justice Writing Project and a poetry judge for their annual literary competition. In her free time, she enjoys reading, collage-making, trying new recipes, and hiking with her dog, Bluebell.
Education
- The Writer鈥檚 Foundry at St. Joseph鈥檚 College-New York, M.F.A. Creative Writing (2017)
- Vassar College-New York, B.A. Philosophy (2012)
Courses Taught
- WR100 Effective Writing
- WR230 Intro to Poetry and Fiction
- WR302 Wet Ink: Writing and Editing for Publication
- WR347 Writing with Images
Publications
Poetry
- "Let It Be Lost," The Hopkins Review, 2022
- "Three Visual Poems and a Conversation," The Hopkins Review, 2022
- "When the Plague Came: 7 Poems," Hot Pink Magazine, 2021
- "Automatic Angel" and "Show Me the One that Hisses," Peripheries Journal, 2021
- "Cartoon vs. Live Action," Bat City Review, 2021
- "Not Venus" and "Material Conditions," Epiphany, 2021
- 鈥淎pple Skin Map,鈥� PANK, 2019
- 鈥淏loom,鈥� Lambda Literary, 2019
- 鈥淒ear Ramekin: Four Epistolary Poems,鈥� Electric Literature, 2019
- 鈥淔orum of Virgins,鈥� VINYL, 2019
- 鈥淩ound vs. Electric,鈥� 鈥淎ngle vs. Glass,鈥� and 鈥淪atin vs. Nature,鈥� Berkeley Poetry Review, 2018
- 鈥淪ilent Music Video,鈥� Prelude, 2018
Short fiction
- 鈥淥n Top of the Mountain,鈥� Passages North, 2019
- 鈥淣ew Pedagogy for Sleeplessness, Fugue, 2019
- 鈥凌耻产产别谤,鈥� New South, 2019
- 鈥淏ody & Career,鈥� The Columbia Review, 2018
- 鈥淭he Suitcase,鈥� Hobart, 2018