Bailey Hoffner

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Portrait by Braden Denton

Bailey Hoffner volunteers with Poetic Justice, an organization that offers restorative writing workshops for incarcerated women, and writes book reviews for World Literature Today. She is currently working to complete her first full collection of poems, If the Honey Is Sunk.

  • An abstract painted figure composed of small circles in a vaguely humanoid shape with three small red circle aligned down the center

    A Poem

    Winter 2020
    Bailey Hoffner
    Ruth Loveland, Inferno, 36x36 inches, mixed media on wood, 2017 is the last thing I want you to become as in late in life your lover looks at a picture of the day you met a sudden warmt…
  • A black and white photo of Sylvia Plath with her bicycle smiling at the camera

    Sylvia Plath’s Fertile and Flowering World

    March 12, 2019 Bailey Hoffner
    Sylvia Plath standing beside her bicycle, Marblehead, Massachusetts, July 24, 1951. Plath, who was eighteen at the time, and her Smith College roommate, Marcia Brown (later Marcia B. Stern), served a…