Ailish Hopper, Date of Birth

Ailish Hopper

American poet, writer and teacher

Date of Birth: 26-Sep-1969

Profession: writer, teacher, poet

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Ailish Hopper is an American poet, writer and teacher. Hopper released a chapbook titled Bird in the Head in 2005, and has since published a poetry collection called Dark~Sky Society (2014), which explores racial tensions.
In an interview with WYPR, she has noted her interest in race relations as being a consequence of her coming of age in DC and of her Irish heritage.
Hopper's poetry has also been included in Agni, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Harvard Review Online, Tidal Basin Review, among others.
In addition to page poetry, she has performed with the band Heroes are Gang Leaders, along with poets Thomas Sayers Ellis and Randall Horton, and saxophonist James Brandon Lewis.
Hopper has also written essays about race relations, including one in Boston Review, "Can a Poem Listen? Variations on Being-white."Hopper graduated from Princeton University with a BA in religion and a certificate in African-American studies, and graduated from Bennington College with an MFA in creative writing and literature.
Her adviser at Princeton was Cornel West.
She has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Vermont Studio, and Yaddo.
She currently is an associate professor in Goucher College's peace studies department.