Ohioana About Ohio or an Ohioan Book Award: 2007
David Hassler (text) and Gary Harwood (photographs) for Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant Community
Kent State University Press
 David Hassler who lives with his family in
Kent, OH, is an award-winning author and poet. Hassler, the program and outreach director for the
Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University, is the author of two books of poetry, Sabishi: Poems from Japan (1994) and
Red Kimono, Yellow Barn (2005).
He also is co-editor of A Place to Grow and Learning by Heart: Contemporary American Poetry about School (1999).
Hassler’s poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Sun, DoubleTake/Points of Entry, and the Indiana Review.
He is the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Grant and an Artists and Communities Grant, and in 2007, he was
named Ohio Poet of the Year by the Ohio Poetry Association.
 Gary Harwood was born in
Garfield Heights, OH, and has lived in Cuyahoga and Portage Counties all his life.
He earned a bachelor’s degree from Kent State University and in 1983, began working for the university as a photographer,
becoming chief photographer in 1987.
His work has received Circle of Excellence Awards from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), and
in 2001, he was named the University Photographers Association of America’s Photographer of the Year.
Harwood also has been the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Grant and an Artists and Communities Grant.
David Hassler Named Ohio Poet of the Year 2006 sponsored by the Ohio Poetry Day Association
Gary Harwood: Kent
Photographers Association website
Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant Community: Kent State University Press
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