Caroline Hagood is an Assistant Professor of Literature, Writing and Publishing; 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, Weird Girls: Writing the Art Monster, and Death and Other Speculative Fictions; and the novels, Ghosts of America and Filthy Creation. Her speculative memoir, Goblin Mode, shortlisted for the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Award, came out 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 May 2025.

Her work has appeared in publications including the Los Angeles Review of Books, 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. Her writing has been translated into Japanese and Korean.
 

She interested in hybridity and texts that bend and blend genres. Her academic articles have appeared in Pedagogy, 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.