Michele Rackham Hall

Michele Rackham Hall is a professor of English and the coordinator of the Professional Writing program at Algonquin College. She is a recent recipient of a NISOD Award of Excellence for Teaching (2020). She holds a Ph.D. in English literature from McGill University, where she studied as a Canada Graduate Scholar, exploring the aesthetic, thematic, and historical intersections between modernist Canadian art and poetry. Her study of Canadian poet P.K. Page’s artistic career, The Art of P.K. Irwin: observer, other, Gemini (2016), was shortlisted for the Foreword Indie Book Awards in the Women’s Studies category. She has also published in numerous Canadian journals, including English Studies in Canada, Canadian Poetry, and Matrix, and served as a contributing editor for The Maple Tree Literary Supplement and The Bull Calf. Currently, she oversees Algonquin College’s Professional Writing program’s press, Spine Online Press, which publishes student fiction and children’s books created in collaboration with the College’s Illustration and Concept Art program. Michele loves teaching about writing and literature, passions that were ignited by her professors in the English department at Carleton University.