Elizabeth Hazen : part one

Elizabeth Hazen is a poet and essayist. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, American Literary Review, Shenandoah, Southwest Review, and other journals. She has published two collections of poetry with Alan Squire Publishing, Chaos Theories (2016) and Girls Like Us (2020). She lives in Baltimore with her family.

What are you working on? 

A few years ago, I began working on a collection of poems that examine stepmothers. I wrote poems in the voices of the stepmothers from fairy tales and movies, as well as poems exploring my own experiences. That project has evolved into a broader examination of parenting and family life with a focus on the challenges of a second marriage and the “blended” family that comes with it. The poems also address issues of addiction and recovery in the context of complicated family dynamics.