Pauletta Hansel's poems and prose has been featured in journals including Atlanta Review, Talisman, Appalachian Journal, Appalachian Heritage and Still: The Journal , and on The Writer's Almanac and American Life in Poetry . She is author of five poetry collections, including TANGLE (Dos Madres Press, 2015) and WHAT I DID THERE (Dos Madres Press, 2011). She is managing editor of Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel , the literary publication of Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative. Her most recent collection is PALINDROME (Dos Madres Press, 2017). Pauletta has been involved with the Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative since its earliest years, and was a member of the Soupbean Poets Collective out of Antioch/Appalachia in the 1970s. She is a Core Member of the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition and has served as Writer in Residence at Thomas More College and at WordPlay Cincinnati. She leads writing workshops and retreats in the Greater Cincinnati area and beyond. In April 2016 was named the City of Cincinnati's first Poet Laureate.

Pauletta lives with her husband Owen Cramer in Cincinnati.