Rachel Hanson | July 2023

Rachel Hanson has just announced her upcoming writing salon on July 29 at 4pm! Join us at 821 Haywood Road! Click here for more information.

In her literary fiction Rachel Hanson explores, from an ecofeminist perspective, the trends in American history to bridle our land and rivers. She ponders the confluence of the human and natural world, often setting her work in the American Southwest and rural Appalachia. Her protagonists reveal to the reader conflicting ideas on the environment—land and rivers, and also wildlife, specifically predatory animals—as they navigate their place in the natural environment, while also struggling to find authenticity in others and themselves, hoping to alter the disconnect they feel from the world. Her narrative nonfiction work tends to analyze the complications of existing in a violent world as much as it explores formal and experimental narrative techniques by examining the voids and chaos of her own fragmented recollections, made apparent in some pieces by the staccato rhythm and repetition of language, and in others through point of view changes, shifts in time, and the resistance of fleshed out exposition. What drives her to write in these specific veins is her hope that awareness might create change, and the desire to find beauty in the face of ugliness.

Join us for Rachel’s event:

Salon: The Stories We Want to Tell and How to Begin | July 29, 2023 at 4pm