Awards2011 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant, #10,000
To write essays based on outings in northern Minnesota’s woods and wetlands, including their botanical and cultural history, merging my earlier work in natural history and recent work in personal essay. 2010 McKnight Artist Fellowship for Writers Loft Award in Poetry Judge Marilyn Nelson: “I was touched by the generosity of these poems in the sharing of grief and the upward and downward tides of the ongoing cycles of birth, death and the seasons. They deftly elevate the individual facts of the quotidian toward the simplicity of myth.” |
Recent Online PublicationsConstruction, an online literary magazine, inaugural issue
Essay "Celestial Event," from The Marriage Bed manuscript Terrain Magazine, Online
Essay "Measures of Loss," from The Marriage Bed manuscript Rights Available
The Marriage Bed: Love divided by death, the heart peeled back, the comfort and hope of true feelings embraced, with diversions into humor, nature, philosophy, physics, teaching, writing and ice skating. Hauser investigates the facts, emotions and consequences of living with eyes wide open. She stares down grief and a life of choices. She interrogates the mysteries of writing, of teaching, of spirituality and of living a personal philosophy. Readers of this collection will feel stronger and more courageous as they face life’s inevitable losses and the fragility of their own hopes. This Comforts Me is a touching and evocative personal narrative that honors the enriching powers of grief and loss as experienced in response to death, separation and other life passages. It is a book that does not back away from difficult emotions. The text is enhanced by 40 drawings by Minnesota artist Michael DeWitt. Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, listened to the audio version and commented: "Yes, that's exactly how it feels. It is a moving and comforting message." DeWitt's drawings have been compared to the "War and Death Cycles" of the German artist Kathe Kollwitz. Writer’s Workshop for One -- or More: A guide for emerging and practicing writers. Starting with the personal impetus to write and culminating with publishing, this book on how to be a writer addresses common and not so common concerns, fears, ambitions and hopes, and includes self-interview questions for the reader, writers groups or classes. |
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