Becca Rose Hall

Becca Rose Hall is a fiction writer, essayist, poet, educator, and single mother. Her work wrestles with ideas of community and utopia, and humanity’s internal relationship with the earth and each other. She recently finished writing a novel set in the flawed but essential utopia of a feminist band house in 1995 Olympia. Her new work explores the radical and colonial legacies of a Puget Sound utopian colony in the early 1900’s. She and her daughter are also co-writing a chapter book series. She writes Notes on Our Mutual Flourishing and A Few Crooked Words on Substack.

Becca is a 2024 Jack Straw Writing Fellow and a 2019 Writers Lighthouse Emerging Fiction Fellow. Her work has been supported by Community of Writers, Arts Omi and Zvona i Nari. She holds a BA in English with Honors from Stanford and a Master’s in Environmental Writing from the University of Montana. Her writing was first recognized in 1999, through Seattle Public Library’s Teen Poetry Prize, followed by the Urmy/Hardy Undergraduate Poetry Prize at Stanford in 2003. More recently, she was a finalist for the 2024 Bechtel Prize, with recent work in Teachers and Writers Collaborative, Mutha, Pacifica Literary Review, About Place, Third Coast, and Orion Magazine, where it was named Best of Orion 2020.

Active in the Seattle literary scene, she read in 2024 through unpoetry, Nonfiction for No Reason, Orcas Island Literary Festival, and Jack Straw. She is the founder and director of Frog Hollow School, a children’s writing program now in its 15th year, and lives in South Seattle.