About Hannah V Warren

Originally from Ellisville, a small town in Jones County, Mississippi, Hannah V Warren is a poet,  translator, literary critic, and Fulbright Scholar living in Birmingham, AL. She is the author of  Slaughterhouse for Old Wives’ Tales (2024) and two chapbooks. Her poetry has appeared in Gulf Coast,  Passages North, THRUSH, Fairy Tale Review and Crazyhorse/swamp pink, among others. She has a PhD  in literature from the University of Georgia, an MFA in creative writing from the University of Kansas,  and a BA in English from Mississippi State University. Hannah’s writing and research interests focus  on the grotesque, post/apocalypse narratives, and representations of alterity. She has a vested  interested in how women experience, suffer, and embrace Southern Gothic landscapes—all themes  which appear in her current projects; she is developing a poetry collection that examines the  intersections of trauma and monstrous bodies, as well as a speculative novel that considers ritual,  gender norms, and post-apocalyptic social restructuring. In addition to Slaughterhouse, Hannah is the  author of two chapbooks: Southern Gothic Corpse Machine (Carrion Bloom 2022) and [re]construction of the  necromancer (2020), which won Sundress Publications’ 2019 chapbook contest. Hannah also translates  German poetry; her recent translations of Alexandra Bernhardt’s work are in Denver Quarterly and  Action Books. 

About the Book:

"we live with the horrors of our own bodies / ornamented machines gnawing into the future / we may as well feed them dried plums / & pretend to love our young"

Slaughterhouse for Old Wives' Tales, Hannah V Warren's full-length debut, is a visceral collection that is not only read but also felt in the body. These fertile poemstrace the lineage of hunger from mother to daughter to sister. Beginning with an excavation of dinosaurs, Warren's writing explores evolution-where we come from, what we offer, and what is left behind "when we plant our tree bodies." This is a collection of bones and organs. The line between flesh and earth, human and animal, blurs in its gorgeous, gruesome descriptions. Warren weaves language in ways that birth new meaning- "tender gash," "rotmouth," "skindamp," "lung-wide." Slaughterhouse for Old Wives' Tales will leave you breathless, haunted, and ravenous for more.