Leilani Hall

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 2001. University of Southern Mississippi
Office: Sierra Tower, Room 820
Phone: 677-3428
Email: leilani.hall@csun.edu

Interests: Poetry and Theories in Creative Writing

Biography:
Leilani Hall is author of the poetry collection Swimming the Witch (2005) and has been awarded The Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize. Her poems and reviews appear in numerous journals and books, including Water~Stone, The Laurel Review, North American Review, and the anthology In a Fine Frenzy: Contemporary Poets Respond to Shakespeare, Iowa Press (2005). She currently serves on the AWP Steering Committee for the Creative Writing Pedagogy Forum.

Before moving to Los Angeles, Leilani Hall lived in Lima, Peru, for two years where she taught 20th C entury Literature, Popular Culture, and Theory of Knowledge in the International Baccalaureate Program at the American School of Lima. In 2000, she was a visiting writer at the International School of Bebek, Turkey. She lives in Woodland Hills with her dogs and butterfly koi.