Nels Hanson

Nels Hanson grew up on a small farm in the San Joaquin Valley of California and has worked as a farmer, teacher and contract writer/editor. His fiction received the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award and Pushcart Prize nominations in 2010, 2012, and 2014. Poems appeared in Word Riot, Oklahoma Review, Pacific Review and other magazines and received Sharkpack Review Annual’s 2014 Prospero Prize and a 2014 Pushcart nomination.

Nels is one of the top ten finalists of Blue Bonnet Review's Spring Poetry contest for his poem "If I Were an Animal". 

Nels' poems "The Doubles" and "After the Silver Rain" have also been published in Blue Bonnet Review.