Caroline Hagood is an Assistant Professor of Literature, Writing and Publishing, Director of Undergraduate Writing, MFA Creative Nonfiction Coordinator, and Assistant Director of the Center for Advancement of Faculty Excellence (Assistant Director of Curriculum Design and Assessment Specialist) at St. Francis College in Brooklyn. She is the Translation Editor at Hanging Loose Press, where she edits The Loose Translation Award, jointly sponsored by Hanging Loose Press and the MFA program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation of Queens College, CUNY.She is the author of the poetry books, Lunatic Speaks (FutureCycle Press, 2012) and Making Maxine’s Baby (Hanging Loose Press, 2015); the book-length essays, Ways of Looking at a Woman (Hanging Loose Press, 2019) and Weird Girls: Writing the Art Monster (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022); and the novels, Ghosts of America (Hanging Loose Press, 2021) and Filthy Creation (MadHat Press 2023). Her book Death and Other Speculative Fictions: An Essay in Prose Poems is forthcoming from Spuyten Duyvil Press in January 2025 and her speculative memoir, Goblin Mode, is forthcoming from Santa Fe Writers Project in September 2025.Her work has appeared in publications including Electric Literature, Creative Nonfiction, LitHub, the Kenyon Review, the Huffington Post, the Guardian, Salon, and Elle. Hagood is a recipient of a 2021 NYFA City Arts Corps Grant. Her novel, Misfits, was a finalist for the 2021 University of New Orleans Press Lab Prize. Her work has been most recently anthologized in Embodied: An Intersectional Feminist Comics Poetry Anthology (A Wave Blue World, 2021).