Hayden Saunier is a poet, actor, and teaching artist living in the Philadelphia area.
Hayden has published six collections of poetry and her work has been awarded numerous prizes including a Pushcart Prize, the Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize, the Rattle Poetry Prize among others. She is the founder and director of No River Twice, a group of poets who offer interactive poetry readings that are never the same twice.
Hayden is a Poet Laureate Emerita
of Bucks County, Pennsylvania
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Her acting resume includes film and television appearances in The Sixth Sense, Philadelphia Diary, House of Cards, Mindhunter, Hack and Do No Harm and dozens of roles at regional theatres such as the Guthrie Theatre , Walnut Street Theatre, Arden Theatre, George Street Playhouse, Interact Theatre and People's Light and Theatre Company.
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Photo: Kim Carson