Tracy Hahn-Burkett

An archive of Tracy’s posts can be found HERE.

 

Tracy Hahn-Burkett is a writer and a public policy advocate. She began her professional life as a congressional staffer and a nonprofit policy advocate in D.C., with stops along the way coordinating western assistance for parliaments in a newly democratic country and working as a Department of Justice lawyer. But when the first kid came along, she decided it was time for a change.

In 2003, Tracy moved to New Hampshire with her family, exchanging her suits for blue jeans and fleece as required by state law. She’d always thought about creative writing, but never had time to give it a try. So she took a class—and she was hooked. Since then, Tracy has published dozens of essays, columns, reviews, articles, and a short story. She wrote the parenting and adoption blog, Uncharted Parent, for eleven years, maintains a freelance writing, editing, and consulting practice, and is the recipient of a grant from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts.

In recent years, as the U.S. has descended into crisis, Tracy has relied upon her politics and policy background to defend and promote democracy and related causes, including by writing columns and designing and teaching workshops on writing for advocacy.

Tracy currently lives in the Washington, D.C. area with her husband, her younger child who is about to leave the nest, a goldendoodle that can chew through two-by-fours and a slightly bewildered cat. She doesn’t have enough coffee or dark chocolate, and she is perpetually revising her first novel.

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