Caroline Hagood is an Assistant Professor of Literature, Writing and Publishing; Assistant Director of Center for Advancement of Faculty Excellence (CAFE); MFA Creative Nonfiction Coordinator; and Director of Undergraduate Writing here at St. Francis College.

Caroline Hagood is the author of two poetry books; the book-length essays, Ways of Looking at a Woman and Weird Girls: Writing the Art Monster; and the novels, Ghosts of America and Filthy Creation. Her book, Death and Other Speculative Fictions: An Essay in Prose Poems, is forthcoming from Spuyten Duyvil Press in 2024. Her speculative memoir, Goblin Mode, shortlisted for the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Award, is forthcoming from Santa Fe Writers Project in Fall 2025. Her book, Women of Fantasy in Their Own Words: Conversations with Contemporary Authors, edited with Sébastien Doubinsky, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury in December 2025.

Her work has appeared in publications including Electric Literature, Creative Nonfiction, Lit Hub, the Kenyon Review, the Huffington Post, the Guardian, Salon, and Elle. Her work has been most recently anthologized in Embodied: An Intersectional Feminist Comics Poetry Anthology and 36 New York Poets. She interested in hybridity and texts that bend and blend genres. 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.

She teaches courses in American literature, first-year writing, and creative writing. Recent courses at St. Francis College include Literature Across Cultures, Intro to Digital Publishing, The Lyric Essay, Telling Our Stories: Theory and Practice of Autobiographical Writing, and Memoir Meets Speculative Fiction.

She serves as Translation Editor at Hanging Loose Press where she is also the Series Editor for the Loose Translation Award, jointly sponsored by Hanging Loose Press and the MFA program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation of Queens College, CUNY.