Leonore Hildebrandt

About the Artist

Leonore Hildebrandt is the author of a letterpress chapbook, THE WORK AT HAND, and a full-length collection, THE NEXT UNKNOWN. She has published poems and translations in the Cafe Review, Cerise Press, the Cimarron Review, Denver Quarterly, Drunken Boat, The Fiddlehead, Poetry Daily, and Poetry Salzburg Review, among other journals. Winner of the 2013 Gemini Poetry Contest, she was nominated twice for a Pushcart prize and received fellowships from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Maine Community Foundation, and the Maine Arts Commission.

A native of Germany, Hildebrandt lives off the grid in Harrington and belongs to the Flat Bay Collective, a group of local artists. She is also a musician and songwriter, performing original music with Brian Dyer Stewart. She teaches writing at the University of Maine and serves on the editorial board of the Beloit Poetry Journal.