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Was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.


Fablesque was also featured in “” by Christine Hume in Electric Literature on January, 5, 2021 and in Strange Horizons’ “”.


Read from her second poetry collection, Fablesque, at Baltimore’s with Lesley Wheeler on December 13, 2020. She also read in with Rosa Alcalá, Susan Briante, giovanni singleton, and Carmen Giménez Smith on December 16, 2020.


Read from her recently published poetry collection, Fablesque, and conversed with Andrea Lawlor at the on October 29, 2020. She read from Fablesque and new work with Elizabeth A. I. Powell at the on November 11, 2020.


Presented her paper “Playset: The Sonnet as Enabling Constraint” at the Sonnets from the American Symposium on October 2, 2020. She read from her recently published poetry collection, Fablesque, at Johns Hopkins University’s Film and Media Studies program on September 24, 2020.


Craig Woodard received a National Science Foundation (NSF) DBI Grant, "UBM-Institutional: Collaborative Research: Four College Biomath Consortium," with Amherst, Smith and Hampshire Colleges. (Mount Holyoke co-PI: Martha Hoopes), September 1, 2011-August 31, 2016.


Lockwood, J., M.F. Hoopes, and M.P. Marchetti. 2013, 2nd edition. Invasion Ecology. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.


Ricciardi, A., M.F. Hoopes, M.P. Marchetti, J.L. Lockwood. 2013. Progress toward understanding the ecological impacts of invasive species. Ecological Monographs 83:263-282


Hornstein, G. A., Branitsky, A. [MHC ‘18],  & Robinson Putnam, E. [MHC ‘14] (2021). The diverse functions of hearing voices peer-support groups: Findings and case examples from a US national study, Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches.  DOI: .

Hornstein, G. A., Mazel-Carlton, C., Davidow, S., Hadge, M. &  Branitsky, A. [MHC ‘18] (2019). . 22 min. film.