Cecelia Hagen lives in Eugene, Oregon. Her first full-length poetry collection, Entering, was widely released by Airlie Press in 2011. Her poems, essays, and reviews have been widely published and her work has won awards and residencies from Literary Arts, the AWP, the MacDowell Colony, Soapstone, Caldera, Playa, and Passager magazine. She teaches poetry and memoir-writing classes, and studies tango.