Pauletta Hansel's poems and prose has been featured in journals including Atlanta Review, Talisman, Appalachian Journal, Appalachian Heritage and Still: The Journal, and on The Writer's Almanac and American Life in Poetry. She is author of five poetry collections, most recently TANGLE (Dos Madres Press, 2015), WHAT I DID THERE (Dos Madres Press, 2011) and The Lives We Live in Houses (Wind Publications, 2011). She is co-editor of Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, the literary publication of Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative. Pauletta leads writing workshops and retreats in the Greater Cincinnati area and beyond.