2025 Project Award

Andrea L. Hackbarth will complete ‘Like a Driftwood Shelter’, a multi-genre manuscript using poetry, short essay, and hybrid visual-literary pieces to explore the complex relationships between birth, death, and motherhood. 

Hackbarth’s work is shaped by raising her own son and experiencing her mother’s recent death, whose parenting was fragmented and distant. To develop a more coherent approach to mothering, Hackbarth looks to the natural world and spiritual traditions as guides. 

When asked what she would like the public to know, Hackbarth responded, “With a background in poetry, I’m currently most interested in experimenting with hybrid literary forms that blend multiple genres, including visual elements.”

Read a collection of five poems by Andrea L. Hackbarth’s here.

“the hardest part of being needed then not” by Andrea L. Hackbarth, 2025

2022 Project Award

Hackbarth will expand her chapbook about the effects of sound waves in context of her work as a piano tuner. This full-length collection of prose poetry will explore connections between musical sound, the science of sound and how sounds resonate with us as human beings.