Todd Hearon Explained

Todd Hearon
Birth Name:Lionel Todd Hearon
Birth Place:Texas
Occupation:Poet/Writer/Musician/Teacher
Nationality:American

Todd Hearon (born February 9, 1968) is an American poet, songwriter, dramatist and fiction writer. He is the author of three collections of poems—Strange Land (2010), No Other Gods (2015) and Crows in Eden (2022)—a number of plays and essays, and a novella, Do Geese See God (2021). His first full-length studio album is Border Radio (2021), featuring 13 original songs in the Americana and folk/folk-rock tradition. A second studio album, Yodelady, featuring 15 original tracks, appeared in 2023. Impossible Man, Hearon's third studio album, featuring 11 original songs, was produced by Don Dixon and appeared in 2024. Hearon lives in Exeter, New Hampshire, has been teaching literature and writing at Phillips Exeter Academy since 2003.

Biography

Todd Hearon was born in Fort Worth, Texas, on February 9, 1968, and was raised in Western North Carolina. He received B.A. from Baylor University in 1990, M.A. from Boston College in 1995, and Ph.D. from Boston University in 2002.[1]

Awards

Works

Strange Land (Winner of the Crab Orchard Award, judged by Natasha Trethewey, Southern Illinois University Press, 2010)

No Other Gods (Salmon Poetry, 2015)

Crows in Eden (Salmon Poetry, 2022)

DO GEESE SEE GOD (Neutral Zones Press, 2021)

An online selection of poems can be found here:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/todd-hearon

https://www.memorious.org/?author=27

https://www.thecommononline.org/tag/todd-hearon/

https://agnionline.bu.edu/about/our-people/authors/todd-hearon

https://www.cincinnatireview.com/tag/todd-hearon/

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lionel T. Hearon. Phillips Exeter Academy. September 29, 2023.