Blake Harrsch (she/her) is a poet corporeally in New Hampshire with a heart determined to capture stories beyond geographic and temporal bounds.
Originally from New Jersey, Blake earned a bachelor’s degree in English and Philosophy and a master’s degree in Literature from Seton Hall University, where she taught first-year writing courses. Blake then flocked north to the University of New Hampshire where she is currently pursuing an MFA in Poetry. Blake also serves as Editor-in-Chief of Barnstorm Journal and a host of Read Free or Die—the program’s monthly reading series.
Her poems can be found in The Word’s Faire, Sad Girl Diaries, Humanities Review, Pinky Magazine, and Echo Review, among others.
“I imagine my blood trail sputtering with the freedom of a dancer’s skirt,
its maroon billowing in winds
that gust in resistance.”– From “On Waking,” by Blake Harrsch
Blake Harrsch is the winner of the 2026 Wildcats Poetry Prize, funded by the YAS Foundation. She is also the recipient of the Dick Shea Memorial Award, an annual prize in poetry awarded through the UNH English Department and selected by guest judge Simeon Berry.
Other recent honors include the William C. Johnson Distinguished Scholarship, the Ann Pazo Mayberry Award, the 2025 NJCEA Graduate Creative Writing Award, and Best Ekphrastic Work featured in Like Waves Through Flesh (2024).
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