"I want
to tell you,
you are beautiful,
by turning thirty
in your arms."
— To George in the Distance, SALAMANDER MORNING
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NADINE
HITCHINER
Biography
Biography
Nadine Hitchiner is a German poet and author of Salamander Morning (Querencia Press, 2025), Practising Ascending (Cathexis Northwest Press, 2023) and the chapbook Bruises, Birthmarks & Other Calamities (Cathexis Northwest Press, 2021). Her work was placed as a finalist in the love&eros prize, the Peatsmoke Journal’s annual summer contest, and the Tupelo Quarterly TQ32 Poetry Open. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and a 2023 Best of the Net Finalist. Her work has appeared in The Tupelo Quarterly, Prose Online, The Poetry Society of New York and others. She has released her debut album Eavesdropping in the spring of 2025.
Selected Works
Selected Works
Nadine Hitchener — “Night Errands” - Tupelo Quarterly
Nadine Hitchiner — Prose Online
The Ungiving by Nadine Hitchiner – ONE ART: a journal of poetry
To George, in the Distance | Eunoia Review
Conservatory | The Citron Review
I Try Not to Place a Brow in | Bending Genres
Like The Men in My Family Moot Point Magazine
Praise for Salamander Morning
Praise for Salamander Morning
Nadine Hitchiner’s Salamander Morning is a tender, deeply contemplative, and meticulously wrought study of the self over the course of a life. “Everything is / moveable, even us…” we are told, and what a miracle this might be: the ability to accumulate experience—to witness, to learn, to adjust. Though, instead, encounter a speaker steady in her sadness. “[W]hat have I done, but put grief / into joy’s chariot?” she asks, continually troubled by her life’s fruition: “I don’t trust time / does much difference.” But enter the poem, which figures as her most well-intentioned gesture, “…a shoelace of breath / and a cape of love…” she offers to those she holds dear, hopeful she might match their affections: “I am not writing this without tears,” she says. And later: “What if I did? Bring you coffee / tomorrow and all of our— / what if all of our / hydrangeas turned blue?” Oh, the sincerity of this collection. Oh, the accountability. Oh, the hyper-vigilance that reveals a radiantly worthy self.
—Susan L. Leary, author of Dressing the Bear
Melodic and ripe with sharp allusions and tantalizing imagery, Nadine Hitchiner is a master of her craft. The elusive way Hitchiner bends and braids language is reminiscent of great contemporaries Anne Carson and Natalie Diaz, yet is uniquely hers.
—Rachael Moorthy, author of RIVER MEETS THE SEA
Salamander Morning is a mesmerizing collection of poems that captivates the senses with its exquisite depth and lyricism. Drawing inspiration from the natural world, Nadine Hitchiner weaves together experiences from fauna, ever-shifting seasons, and vivid settings to explore the wild vastness of the human experience. Each poem is grounded in rich detail and showcases Hitchiner’s undeniable gift for language and form. Touching on love and marriage, loss, growth, and personal history, these poems are as transient as they are timeless. In the tradition of Mary Oliver, Salamander Morning invites readers to contemplate impermanence, our relationship with the world around us, and ultimately, confront our own fragility. Equally universal and personal, this perceptive collection should not be missed.
—Katy Luxem, author of Until It Is True
Querencia Press
Querencia Press
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Praise for Practising Ascending
Praise for Practising Ascending
"Practising Ascending’ , a collection by Nadine Hitchiner. In this sprawling book Hitchiner disentangles what the heart and mind claim as absence, examines what they carry as grief, and commemorates what they hold as memory. Hitchiner writes a striking, precise line with a haunting, exquisite aesthetic. This is a superb debut.”
— Jose Hernandez Diaz, author of The Fire Eater, Bad Mexican, Bad American, & The Parachutist.
"Nadine Hitchiner's collection Practising Ascending is a powerful volume of enchantment and magic. Told with clear-eyed vulnerability and intimacy, Hitchiner takes us on an exploratory journey of family, love, grief, lineage, religion, and daughterhood, each poem painted against the backdrops of food, nature, animal, body, and soft places. I was spellbound by her gorgeous prose and poetry, her quiet disruption of the blank page, each line a satisfying accompaniment to the next. Most of all, I appreciated its center, its emotional core wherein lies Hitchiner and her husband through the various waves of their lives and relationship, enthralling me with each poem and page. By the end of the collection, my role as a reader became clear: to ascend this world into hers."
— Sofía Aguilar, author of STREAMING SERVICE: season two
"Nadine Hitchiner’s Practising Ascending is a collection of poetry that crochets insight and mundanity, lyricism and humor. These poems present a world in which everything banal is beautiful and vulnerability is vital. Hitchiner writes the kind of poems that make other poets say, “I wish I’d written that!” (See: “Self-Portrait as Tinder” and “What Do You Expect Me to Say, Clearly I was Disappointed”) Behind her signature dazzling metaphors and similes are beautiful and pulsing truths. This is a hard book to put down."
— Lexi Pelle, author of Let Go With The Lights On
"Nadine Klassen writes like she invented language. She is one of the most promising and electric writers I have ever had the privilege of working with.”
-- Megan Falley, author of Drive Here and Devastate Me (Write Bloody Publishing, 2018)
Praise for Bruises, Birthmarks & Other Calamities
Praise for Bruises, Birthmarks & Other Calamities
"This chapbook knocked me off my feet and simultaneously had me flipping back and forth between each poem, as they are crafted in such a clever way. Klassen weaves together topics beautifully such as mental health, family, and sexuality. “I count all the good-bi's in the poem: bilingual, bisexual, bipolar.” Her words leave you yearning for more and simultaneously shine a light on your own reflection, as she has a talent to challenge your own thinking. Klassen teaches us about mental health in a beautiful but informed way: “I keep my foot heavy on the pedal. Even in music I search for monotony." You are going to flip back and forth between these poems as your subconscious chews away at what it means. I can only wait for what Klassen has in store for us next."
-- Sita Gaia, author of Knocking On The Body's Door (Prolific Pulse Press LLC 2021).
"In Bruises, Birthmarks & Other Calamities, Nadine Klassen finds beauty in the “madness of firecracker-blood” that is her experience of living through the mental health rollercoaster. She has a unique ability to simultaneously shake and soothe you with her marvellous metaphors and triumphant unravelling on the page. This book made me feel less alone and will be a comfort to anyone who has lived “a diagnosis treated only with a grave”. Klassen makes room for her trauma, her healing, and her love in this collection of poems that remind you to not be afraid “of your laugh lines telling the jokes”. Bruises, Birthmarks & Other Calamities is a must-read for anyone who is in love with language, who wants to make room within themselves to be inspired and held by the glorious “rebellion of beautiful things” that is Nadine Klassen’s poetry."
-- Melissa Sussens, New Contrast National Poetry Prize runner up
Impressum & Kontakt:
Impressum & Kontakt:
Nadine Hitchiner
Postfach 18 04
32708 Detmold
Germany
Tel.: 0049 172 1834520
Email: n_k93@gmx.de
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