Blake Harrsch (she/her) is a poet corporeally in New Hampshire with a heart determined to capture stories beyond geographic and temporal bounds.
She earned her BA in English Honors & Philosophy and her MA in English Literature from Seton Hall University, where she taught first-year writing courses. Blake now attends the University of New Hampshire, pursuing an MFA in Poetry. She works as a Communications Assistant for the UNH Graduate School. Blake also serves as co-editor of the Platform Review.
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.
Her 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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