Hannah Piette

Hannah Piette is a first year Ph.D. student in the English department. She received her B.A. in English from UC Berkeley, and her thesis explored how John Clare’s poems respond to the enclosure of his parish. She graduated with an M.F.A. in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and last year she taught poetry writing as the CLAS Visiting Poet in the English department at the University of Iowa. Her poems have appeared in Chicago Review, Works & Days, The Spectacle, Guesthouse, and elsewhere. At Yale, she is studying Romantic poetry and its relationship to the enclosure of the commons, as well as social histories of dispossession.