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​Hannah Tool is a Santa Cruz educator and parent originally from the East Coast. She holds a B.A. in Writing and Rhetoric from UMass Dartmouth and an M.S. in Education from CSU East Bay. Her poetry is free form and often focuses on memory and motherhood. You can find her work in Barbar’s SUBMIT, TPC Review, Suburban Witchcraft Magazine and others. When not teaching or writing, she can be found wrist deep in dirt in the garden with her family.

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I write to understand the shape of my emotions, circumstances, and relationships. Often, this leads to an exploration of what it means to occupy the lived and inherited experiences of a mother, daughter, and woman. Sometimes writing brings me clarity, sometimes it illuminates a moment I found myself preoccupied by, and sometimes it opens space for speculation.