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Cindy Ellen Hill
Writer
Works
Soon to be Published
Coming this Summer, 2026!
Cindy Ellen Hill’s novel-in-verse Leeds Point astonished me with its range, violence, beauty, and lyrical intelligence.
Robin Marie MacArthur
You had me at Jersey Devil.
Jessy Randall
Leeds Point is a wild toad’s ride of a narrative poem set in New Jersey’s 1700s coastal marshlands and pine barrens.
Basil T. Paquet
Bio
Cindy Ellen Hill is a writer, musician and obsessed gardener in Middlebury, Vermont. She has written extensively for Vermont Woman, Vermont Outdoors, VTDigger, and other news and culture magazines, winning NENPA awards. She has published and won awards for literary, environmental and science fiction short stories.
She is the author of four poetry collections – Wild Earth and Other Sonnets (Antrim House Books), Elegy for the Trees (Kelsay Books), Mosaic: Poems and Essays from Travels in Italy (Wild Dog Press), and Love in a Time of Climate Change (Finishing Line Press).
Her novel in sonnet verse, Leeds Point, is scheduled for release in April 2026 from Selkie Songs Press UK. Her poetry has appeared in Vermont Magazine, Vermont Life, Measure, The Lyric, and on National Public Radio, and her essays on sonnets, new and ancient, have appeared in Unlikely Stories and American Poetry Review.
Hill holds an MFA in writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Bio
Off the Press
Cindy Ellen Hill's first poem in Elegy for the Trees vows to sing for the trees. Her tightly-crafted poems do exactly that... Her poetry songs often follow a fourteen-line tradition that includes the parsing of Celtic and Skaldic meters and Green elegiac couplets... She reminds us of what we need to think about now more than ever, how we can honor the memories of trees. Finally, her imperative: go plant a tree.
Cindy Ellen Hill's new book of poems, Wild Earth, explains why poets have been writing sonnets for over 800 years. For Hill, a sonnet, which she uses in a dozen variants, inspires and demands fresh ways to sing aloud of love, nature, humanity and divinity, and of vivid characters, from the poet herself to the cranky neighbor next door, from God and the gods to the endangered wld Earth.
Cindy Ellen Hill's second book of sonnets, Elegy for the Trees, explores the life and death of trees. The whole work is infused with the impermanence and the importance of trees. Not content with solely classical forms, she blends in ancient eddic and druidic themes with wonderful results. These extraordinary sonnets are most skillfully worked. Hill is a true sister in spirit to Danu, Fridays, Gaia, and many, many dryads
Tricia Knoll,
Author, Checkered Mates
David Weinstock,
Author, The Amalek Poems
Dan Close,
Author, What the Abenaki Say About Dogs
In The Press
Contact
For any media inquiries, please contact Cindy Ellen Hill directly:
Tel: (802) 989-6906 | wordwomanvt@yahoo.com
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