Project-Based Learning with Dr. Caroline Hagood & Anna Riddo

Caroline Hagood is an Assistant Professor of Literature, Writing and Publishing and Director of Undergraduate Writing at St. Francis College, where she also teaches in the MFA program. Hagood’s work has appeared in publications including LitHub, The Kenyon Review, the Huffington Post, the Guardian, Salon, Elle, and the Economist. She has published two poetry books, Lunatic Speaks (2012) and Making Maxine’s Baby (2015), a book-length essay, Ways of Looking at a Woman (2019), and a novel, Ghosts of America (2021). Her last three books were Small Press Distribution bestsellers and were published by Hanging Loose Press, which has released books from such writers as Maggie Nelson, Eula Biss, Cathy Park Hong, and Ha Jin, among others. She is on the Advisory Board for Cornell University Press’s trade imprint, Three Hills, and she serves as the Coordinator of the Creative Nonfiction Standing Group of the Conference on College Composition and Communication’s Donald Murray Award. Her academic articles have appeared in Resources for American Literary Study, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, and Caribbean Literature, Language, and Culture.

Anna Riddo is majoring in Childhood Education with a concentration in English at St. Francis. Anna is a Peer Leader, moderator of The SFC Writer’s Group and editor of the upcoming SFC Undergraduate Literary Magazine. She currently works at a non-profit where she helps students who struggle with reading as a Reading Interventionist.