She is the third Nebraskan and first woman to hold this position, to which she was appointed by Governor Dave Heineman in November 2013.
[1] Hansen was raised near the town of Lyons in northeast Nebraska and currently lives in Lincoln.
[2] While working as grounds manager and arboretum curator at Nebraska Wesleyan University, Hansen took classes from poet William Kloefkorn, who became one of her mentors.
[3][4] Hansen was appointed to replace Kloefkorn as Nebraska State Poet after his death in 2011.
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