Margaret Hasse

"This is a potent, clear-cut, honest voice – no posturing, no distractions. It moved me very much with its genuine lyrical passion. All heart and soul and care. I felt deeply and genuinely joyous after reading it."

- Naomi Shihab Nye, Poet and Judge,

Loft-McKnight Poetry Fellowship 2006

Margaret Hasse, originally from South Dakota, makes her home in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She received a B.A. in English from Stanford University and an M.A. in English from the University of Minnesota. Margaret has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Minnesota State Arts Board, and the Jerome Foundation, as well as two fellowships from the McKnight Foundation through the Loft Literary Center. She has published three books of poems. Her poems are included in To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-territorial Days to the Present (New Rivers Press, 2006) and Where One Voice Ends Another Begins: 150 Years of Minnesota Poetry (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2007).

Please contact Margaret at mmhasse@att.net for readings, presentations, and other literary ventures.

Margaret Hasse’s Literary Resume pdf

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Milk and Tides

Nodin Press (2008)

finalist for a

2009 Minnesota Book Award

In a Sheep’s Eye, Darling

Milkweed Editions (1988)

winner of the Lakes and Prairies competition and finalist for a 1988 Minnesota Book Award

Stars Above, Stars, Below

New Rivers Press (1984)

winner of the Minnesota Voices competition