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Dawn Hogue, a former AP English teacher with 25 years of classroom experience, is also a poet and a fiction writer. A longtime Wisconsin resident, Hogue relocated to Tucson, Arizona in 2022. She continues her role as principal and managing editor of Water’s Edge Press LLC.

She is most well known for her AP English Crash Course books from REA. Both books are highly regarded by teachers and students alike for their ease of use and concise summary of the skills and content needed for success on the AP English exams. The prep books for both the literature and for language exams are in their third editions, fully compliant with the most recent changes to the exams.

As an English teacher, Hogue was an avid blogger and from 2001 until she retired in 2016, she published unit plans and lessons online. Many of those documents are still available to teachers and students. She contributed as well to various professional journals including several articles in The English Journal.

Hogue has been a lifelong advocate for student writers, and from 2011 to 2018, she worked for Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth as a writing instructor, working primarily with middle grade students.

Upon retiring from teaching, Hogue steered her energy toward creative writing. Her poetry has appeared in various literary publications including Stoneboat Literary Journal, Inscape Magazine, and Blue Heron Review. Hogue is the winner of the 2017 Hal Prize for Poetry; the winning poem “The Obligation” appeared in Peninsula Pulse. She has contributed to several poetry anthologies as well, including The Water Poems and From Everywhere a Little: A Migration Anthology. Her most recent work is titled Painting South Pier (2019). It is a collection of poems inspired by the four seasons at the South Pier District in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

A Hollow Bone, her debut novel from Water’s Edge Press, was released June 2017, and has received numerous positive reviews. The multi-generational novel, set in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, explores complex family dynamics. Loss, love, and redemption are the major themes.

Her newest novel is Summit Road, which is also set in Wisconsin, in which an ensemble cast of characters learn to find home and family.

In 2012, Hogue was one of four featured writers at the 2012 Great Lakes Writers Festival at Lakeland University, Sheboygan, WI. She is a member of The Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets.

Bibliography

Fiction:

Poetry:

  • “I have told the Gila Woodpecker,” Rockvale Review, 2024
  • “Empire Ranch,” honorable mention, Hal Prize, Peninsula Pulse, 2021
  • “March in Tucson,” Bramble, 2021
  • “Still Life,” Through This Door (anthology from Art Night Books), 2020
  • “Suddenly There Are Not Enough Books,” Stoneboat Literary Journal, August 2020
  • “After the Solstice,” Wisconsin DNR Calendar 2020-21
  • “Brown Study,” Honorable Mention, Wisconsin People and Ideas, September 2020
  • Painting South Pier (Water’s Edge Press, August 2019)
  • “Persistence,” Everywhere a Little: A Migration Anthology (Water’s Edge Press, 2019)
  • “May Day,” Solitude,” and “The Color of Water” Verse Virtual, May 2019
  • “You can tell which pictures my mother took,” Blue Heron Review, 2019
  • “Russula Crenulata,” Inscape, 2018
  • “Crane Dance,” Stoneboat Literary Journal, Spring 2019, and 10th Anniversary Edition, Fall 2019
  • “Red Grapes,” Peninsula Pulse, August 2018
  • “Mantodea,” Stoneboat Literary Journal, Fall 2017
  • “The Obligation,” Peninsula Pulse, August 2017 (Winner of the Hal Prize for Poetry)
  • “She Dreamed of Painting,” Stoneboat Literary Journal, Fall 2015
  • “Stones,” Stoneboat Literary Journal, Fall 2013
  • The Aging Poems, with the Grand Avenue Poetry Collective (Water’s Edge Press, September 2018)
  • The Water Poems, with the Grand Avenue Poetry Collective (Water’s Edge Press, September 2018)
  • “Wisdom” and “Barn Quilt,” Intersections: Art and Poetry, (Sheboygan Visual Artists, 2016)
  • “The Process” and “This is What Happens,” Making It Speak – Poets and Artists in Cahoots, (Sheboygan Visual Artists, 2014)

Nonfiction:

Education:

  • AP English Language and Composition Crash Course, 3rd Edition (REA, 2020)
  • AP English Literature and Composition Crash Course, 2nd Edition (REA, 2019)
  • AP English Language and Composition Crash Course, 2nd Edition (REA, 2018)
  • AP English Language and Composition Crash Course (REA, 2013)
  • AP English Literature and Composition Crash Course (REA, 2011)