Donora Hillard

It was during her tenure as an English instructor at a private Roman Catholic high school near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania that Hillard cultivated the experiences that would inform Theology of the Body, her first full-length poetry collection. In 2014, while teaching composition and literature at Lawrence Technological University, Hillard's work, The Aphasia Poems, was published by S▲L. After moving to Northeast Ohio, Hillard completed the requirements for her PhD in English from Wayne State University.

After completing her BA in English from King's College (Pennsylvania) in just under three years, Hillard went on to pursue an MA in creative writing from Rutgers University. She would later finish that degree and also receive her MFA in creative writing from Wilkes University in 2008.

She has published several works of hybrid text, poetry, and theory: Parapherna (2006), Exhibition (2008), Theology of the Body (2010), Covenant (2012), and The Aphasia Poems (2014). In 2015, her play The Plagiarist was produced in conjunction with the National Endowment for the Arts' The Big Read initiative. In 2016, Cobalt Press published her most recent full-length poetry book, Jeff Bridges.

Donora Hillard (born 1982) is an American educator and author. She was first made notable in the fields of institutional critique and trauma studies, specifically for her first full-length collection of poetry published when she was 27 years old. Her projects have appeared on CNN, WBEZ Chicago, and MSNBC, owing to her inclusion in a Norton Anthology of hint fiction.