S. Hazen Guthrie is a stage director and choreographer. She is a Master Teacher of Voice and Speech, specializing in the study and performance of Shakespeare. Directing and voice/verse credits include Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Victory Gardens, Chicago Shakespeare, Whirlwind Performance Company, Sundog Theater, and Stage One – Louisville Children’s Theatre. Faculty appointments include DePaul, Roosevelt, and Creighton Universities, the Universities of Nebraska, Alabama, and Ohio University, where she served with tenure.
S. Hazen Guthrie is a poet. Her most recent work is the collection, we held our breath, the birds and I, Finishing Line Press, 2024. Her poetry appears in Signal Tales, WLRH 2024; 2023 Year in Review, Out Loud Huntsville, 2024; The Brightest Day, WLRH, 2023; 52 Weeks of Sun, Madison Press 2022; and in The Rose in the World, May and October 2021.She performs readings in New York, Chicago, and Southeastern region. Ms. Guthrie is the resident poet of Scribe South. She writes with the Coweeta Poets; directing/performing in The Space Between Us and Where the Soul Sails, authoring the title poem. As a Sundial Writer, she can be heard on WLRH, Alabama’s NPR station.
Nationally recognized as a curriculum specialist in Arts Integration, Guthrie has authored Shakespeare in the Classroom, The City Shakespeare Projects, The Teacher’s Poetry Companion, and The Schoolchildren’s Blizzard. She has served as a lecturer for New York State Alliance for Arts Education, and as the New York City Regional Coordinator for Poetry Out Loud, National Poetry Recitation Competition.
In May 2024 Guthrie was named a Queens/Belmont University, Belfast/Nashville Fellow. She is a Teaching Artist for the Tennessee Arts Commission, the Alabama State Council on the Arts, and the North Alabama Artist Collaborative. She has served throughout the country as an Artist-in Residence for the New York, Illinois, and Nebraska Arts Councils, a Humanities Scholar for the Nebraska Humanities Council, and for POL – The National Endowment for the Arts and The Poetry Foundation.
“The world is alive apart from us,” writes S. Hazen Guthrie in this new collection of poems that seeks to bring that world’s life close enough to touch. With a hint of Zen and a keen awareness of the strains and possibilities of this exact moment, Guthrie fashions a new language to capture what is fleeting, if not small at all: our words, our faith, and our hope for our future.
–Linda Frost, Ph.D., Dean of the Honors College, The U. of Tennessee at Chattanooga
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