Born in 1956, Noël Hanlon farms on thirty acres in the Willamette Valley, Oregon, with her husband, where they raised their two children. Noël is a fourth generation Irish-American, and travels often to the West of Ireland for a farmer’s vacation. Her poetry has been published in both Ireland and the United States. Noël’s first collection of poems, Blue Abundance, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2010.
