Chachi D. Hauser

Chachi D. Hauser (she/her) is a writer and filmmaker born in NYC, now based between New Orleans and Paris. Chachi’s first book, It’s fun to be a person I don’t know, will be published in March 2023 by the University of Nebraska Press in their American Lives Series. Her writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and her essays have appeared in Hobart, Prairie Schooner, Crazyhorse, The Writer’s Chronicle, among others. She's one of the producers of Hollow Tree, a feature documentary about three young women coming of age into a new climate reality in Louisiana, which has been supported by the Sundance Institute, the National Endowment for the Arts, among others, and won the Best Louisiana Feature Jury and Audience Awards at the 2022 New Orleans Film Festival. Chachi graduated with honors in film studies from Wesleyan University and completed her MFA in creative writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her writing and filmmaking explore topics of gender, environment, identity, family, and the imagination with a passion for exploring the wild // fluid // in-between places.