Ceridwen Hall is a poet, essayist, educator, and writing coach. She earned her MFA at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and completed her PhD at the University of Utah, where she received the Clarence Snow Fellowship and the Levis Prize in Poetry. She is the author of Acoustic Shadows and The School for Danger and Other Studies (forthcoming in 2026), as well as the chapbooks Automotive, fields drawn from subtle arrows (Co-winner of the 2022 Midwest Chapbook Award), and minutes between city and forest. She is the 2026-2027 virtual Writer-in-Residence at Cottey College, and also serves as a teaching artist at The Muse Writers’ Center.

Her writing explores the technologies that haunt our past and the habits that shape our present. Her poems and essays have appeared in Spoon River Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, Pembroke Magazine, Tar River Poetry, Poet Lore, The Cincinnati Review, and other journals, and have been nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net Prizes.

Ceridwen Hall’s online coaching helps poets overcome creative blocks, develop their craft, assemble debut manuscripts, and seek publication.