 Sandra Kohler
Sandra Kohler grew up in New York City, attended public schools
there, then went to Mount Holyoke College (A.B., 1961) and Bryn Mawr College (A.M., 1966
and Ph.D., 1971). Her doctoral dissertation was on ideas of history in Edmund Spenser's Faerie
Queene, and her academic specialties were English Renaissance literature and
Shakespeare. From 1969 to 1976 she taught in the English department at Bryn Mawr College.
She then "retired" from full-time involvement in the academic world to give more
time to her own work as a poet and to raise her son. In the years since, she has taught
literature and writing courses part-time at levels ranging from elementary school to
university and adult education. She currently teaches poetry writing and an occasional
course in twentieth century poetry as an adjunct Lecturer in Creative Writing at
Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania.
Her first book of poems, The Country of Women, was published in July, 1995 by
Calyx Books. Her poems have appeared over the past twenty years in periodicals including The
Southern Review, Poetry Now, The Massachusetts Review, Calyx, Countermeasures, Prairie
Schooner, The Women's Review of Books, and The American Poetry Review. In
1994 she was awarded the Calapooya Collage Poetry Prize. She has twice received
fellowships in poetry from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
In 1992, Ms. Kohler moved to Selinsgrove from the Philadelphia area with her husband, Dr.
Walter G. Hagenbuch, a retired science educator, and her son, Charles, who is currently a
senior at Williams College. In addition to teaching at Susquehanna, she was involved in
starting a book group at the Selinsgrove Public Library in 1993 that she still serves as
discussion leader, which is currently underwritten by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council.
She has also become an avid gardener. She is a voracious reader of novels and mysteries
(poetry is harder work!), lifts weights, enjoys daily walks on the Isle of Que along the
Susquehanna River, and harbors a not-very-secret passion for the Philadelphia Flyers
hockey team.
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