Todd Hearon

**Todd Hearon**
Todd Hearon
Born	Lionel Todd Hearon; February 1968 (age 56); Texas
Occupation	Poet/Writer/Musician/Teacher
Nationality	American
Website
	www.toddhearon.com

Todd Hearon (born February 9, 1968) is an American poet, songwriter, dramatist and fiction writer. He is the author of three collections of poems—Strange Land (2010), No Other Gods (2015) and Crows in Eden (2022)—a number of plays and essays, and a novella, Do Geese See God (2021). His first full-length studio album is Border Radio (2021), featuring 13 original songs in the Americana and folk/folk-rock tradition. A second studio album, Yodelady, featuring 15 original tracks, appeared in 2023. Impossible Man, Hearon's third studio album, featuring 11 original songs, was produced by Don Dixon and appeared in 2024. Hearon lives in Exeter, New Hampshire, has been teaching literature and writing at Phillips Exeter Academy since 2003.

Biography

Todd Hearon was born in Fort Worth, Texas, on February 9, 1968, and was raised in Western North Carolina. He received B.A. from Baylor University in 1990, M.A. from Boston College in 1995, and Ph.D. from Boston University in 2002.^[1]

Awards

Poet-in-Residence, Dartmouth College and The Frost Place
Dobie-Paisano Creative Writing Fellowship/University of Texas, Austin
Paul Green Playwrights Prize
Crab Orchard Award/Southern Illinois University Press
PEN New England/"Discovery" Award
Rumi Prize in Poetry/Arts & Letters
Friends of Literature Prize/Poetry magazine and the Poetry Foundation
Campbell Corner Poetry Prize/Sarah Lawrence College
Songwriters Prize, First Place (for Lyrics)/American Songwriter Magazine
International Acoustic Music Awards, Finalist/Runner-up (Folk category) for "Mary Dyer"