Non-fiction Writing Samples
Writing and Editing Consultant
AI Guidance and Policy
In an effort to prepare Plymouth State University students for their future in the workplace, “PSU Course Syllabus AI Guidance” starts an open-ended discussion surrounding AI. As part of a Technical Communications course, I created a website to share guidelines to PSU faculty and professors.
These guidelines can be treated like a framework for PSU course syllabi. These frameworks inform students about a course’s values, as assigned by the professor.
With the range of polarizing opinions on AI usage, it felt important to emphasize a professor’s responsibility to assign work based on the workplace skills they believe are needed for their students’ future success.
PSU Course Syllabus AI Guidance offers professors the verbiage to defend their positions and design their classes with the nuances of this generative and non-generative AI in mind.
Creative Writing Samples
I wrote this piece to play with genre, which is why I was so honored when Bending Genres published the work. I infused dark and cryptic imagery into what is normally perceived as a professional statement (“the author bio”).
Following the form of a more ‘traditional’ poem, this poem uses repetition and uncomfortable imagery to show how rural life, in many ways, can be the perfect metaphor for grief.
In the Fall of 2025, I had the honor of curating the Museum of the White Mountain’s exhibition, Rooted: A Story of Trees. As part of this process, I organized student art and poetry submissions across Plymouth State University’s campus. I received dozens of submissions and was honored to create a chapbook full of these works. Along with uplifting the creativity of others, I was excited to write a few tree poems of my own. Katsura is one such poem.
Photography Samples
Work I completed for my “How to Play Kalimba” ebook project; more information included above.
Personal Favorites
Some of these photos are more surreal and bizarre, while others have simply pushed the limits of my photo-taking abilities. I like playing with the natural and the absurd, searching for a middle ground between the two that captures human emotions in an instant.
Hazel J. Hall 