A native of Colombia, South America, Hope Snyder received an MA in Spanish and Latin American Literature from Johns Hopkins, another MA in Spanish Literature from George Washington University, and a Ph.D. in Spanish Medieval Literature from the University of Manchester. Hope has a novel, Orange Wine, as well as three books of poems, The Houdini Chronicles, Chains,  Strings of Broken Hearts, and two plays, The Backroom and Lullaby for George. 

Her poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Alehouse Press, The Comstock Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Poetry Society of America, OCHO, Poetry Northwest, 32 Poems, Blackbird, The Kenyon Review, and other journals. Hope’s honors include the first Donald Everitt Axinn Award in Poetry for Bread Loaf, the first scholarship to attend Bread Loaf in Sicily, three poetry fellowships for the Gettysburg Review’s Conference for Writers, and the Peter Taylor Fellowship in Poetry at The Kenyon Review’s Conference. 

Featured in the Latino/a Poetry Round Table Discussion hosted by the Poetry Society of America, Hope founded and directed the Sotto Voce Poetry Festival for eight years in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.  

Last year, Hope coordinated The Gettysburg Review’s Conference for Writers. Currently she's on the staff for the Bread Loaf Conference in Sicily. This spring she will be working at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland, as Writer-in-Residence.   

Her recent projects include translating the work of Cuban poet Wendy Guerra and a poetry collection titled Blue Nights.

Hope is also currently the Poet Laureate of Shepherdstown WV.

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