Vita

Education

PhD, English, U.C. Davis, Davis, CA

M.F.A, Poetry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

BA, summa cum laude with Major Honors, English Literature, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA

Poetry Publications

Books

2019: Fossils in the Making (Black Ocean)

2019: Diurne, Winner of the 2019 Sunken Garden Poetry Prize (Tupelo Press)

Poems

2015-present: Imaginations: Journal of Cross Cultural Image Studies: “After the Amplify Energy Oil Spill” and “Crude Futures”;  The River Rail: Atomic Shade,” “Uncene,” and “Chain Reaction”; Omniverse: excerpt from Diurne; TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics, “Calving” and “Wander”; Academy of American Poets, “unfield“; Matter Journal, “post-“ and “Lines Written After Crisis”; Boston Review, “Proof of Hunger”; Colorado Review, “Proof of Extension,” “Memory / Mattering”; Superstition Review, “echo / after”Grist Poetry Journal, “Word”; Puerto Del Sol, “Proof of Infinity”; Zone 3, “Proof of Parasite”; Ninth Letter, “Proof of Harm”; Salamander, The Waiting“;  Denver Quarterly, “Fossils in the Making”; Mid-American Review, “Purge Body”; The Laurel Review, “Monster Body” and “Fault Line”; The Cincinnati Review, “Resurrection Body”; Juked (print), “The Somatic Wager”; Berkeley Poetry Review, “Moon Body.”

2012-2014: The Los Angeles Review, “Last Body”; Image Journal, “More strange,” “Absence Blooming”; The Cresset“Fish or Bird Body” Word Riot, “Commodity Body” and “Damage Body”; Phi Kappa Phi Forum, “Amidst Various Shades of Brown” (Spring 2013 Poetry Prize winner); CutBank Literary Magazine, “Child’s First Encounter with Language as Power”; Redivider, “Curdle & Churn”; Ruminate Magazine, “Ruach,” “My Father Scrubs the Kitchen Counter,” Flyway Journal, Diptych of Body as Illness”32 Poems, “Persephone Willing“; Thrush Poetry Journal“We Dissolve Separately”Rock & Sling, “How to Grieve”; The Cresset, “Petrel,” and “Water Call;” Ekphrasis, “Niobe Repents”; RATTLE, Holding Light;” Relief, “At the Shelter Checking the Children for Lice,” “After the Flood,” “During the Drought”

2008-2011: Alba: A Journal of Short Poetry, “Van Gogh’s Ambition;” Avocet “Silence is a Bird,” “Game;” Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, (Poetry Prize Winner), “Cut Hair;” The Rectangle (Sigma Tau Delta), “Apple Picking at Oak Glen (second publication); California State Poetry Quarterly Vol. 35.1, “Apple Picking at Oak Glen;” Sage Trail, “Between the Blue Gum Trees;” Tipton Poetry Journal, “Letter to Leah in England”; Sage Trail, “Fog”

Reviews & Blog Posts

2017-2018: “Diurnal Writing,” Rob Mclennon’s Small Press Writing Day;V21 Collective, Post: “The New Formalism of ‘Anthropocene Inscriptions’: A Poetics of the Record”

2012-16: 32 Poems, Review: “Keeping Place Whole: Hum by Jamaal May”Omniverse, Post: “Poetics of Drought,” An Introduction.;Colorado Review, Review: Barely Composed by Alice Fulton”Colorado Review, Blog post: “2014 State of the Stats“; Ruminate Magazine, Blog post: “5 Literary Magazines for 2015″;Colorado Review, Book Review:  Missing the Moon by Bin RamkeColorado Review, Blog Post: “2013 Submission Stats“; Ruminate Magazine, Blog Post: “6 Literary Magazines You Should Read in 2014“;Colorado Review, Book Review: Grains of the Voice by Christina Pugh; Colorado Review, Book Review: Sunday Rising by Patricia Clark; Colorado Review, Interview: “Interview in 7 Parts with Susanna Childress”;Ruminate Magazine, Review: The Sin-Eater: A Breviary by Thomas Lynch (Paraclete Press 2011); Ruminate Magazine, Review: Entering the House of Awe by Susanna Childress (Western Michigan UP 2011); Ruminate Magazine, Review: Simple Weight by Tanya Runyan (FutureCycle Press 2010)

Critical Work

Articles

“Atomic Afrofuturism and Amiri Baraka’s Compulsive Futures.” Oxford Literary Review, 41.1 for special issue, “EXT: Writing Extinction” (July 2019).

Addressing the Atomic Specter: Ginsberg’s ‘Plutonian Ode’ and America’s Nuclear Unconscious.” Symplokê 27.1-2 (2019)

“Energy Ecopoetics,” co-authored with Margaret Ronda, forthcoming in The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics

Conference Papers & Presentations

2021:

“Transhistorical Energy Humanities,” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Roundtable co-organizer and presenter.

“The Limits of Decay: June Jordan’s Poetics of Shelter,” in the seminar “Decay Theory. American Comparative Literature Association (virtual). Presenter.

2020:

“Atomic Afrofuturism: Building Up Post-Apocalyptic Futures,” on the panel, “Visionary Urbanism: Critical Futurographies and the Ethno-futurist Imaginary,” EAUH (European Association for Urban History), Antwerp. [postponed due to COVID]

2019:

 “Poetry and Science at the Margins.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA), U.C. Irvine, 2019.

Colby College Summer Institute for the Environmental Humanities, Waterville ME, 2019. Participant

“New Nuclear Criticism,” Roundtable Organizer & Participant, MLA Chicago

2018:

“The Future Has Been Cancelled: Baraka’s Atomic Afrofuturism,” American Literature Association (ALA), San Francisco, CA

“The Ecology of the Referent: Ecopoetry & the Poetry Wars,” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.

2017:

“Poetic Remediation” on the roundtable, “Materiality in Contemporary Art: Compos(t)ing the Past Through the Present,” The Association for the Study of Arts of the Present (ASAP), Oakland.

“The After(half) Lives of Ginsberg’s ‘Plutonian Ode'” in the seminar, “The Beats and Their Afterlives,” ASAP.

“The Ecology of the Referent,” Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE), Detroit, MI.

“A New Formalism for the Anthropocene: Portable Forms for Interdisciplinary Conversations,” The Liberal Arts for a Fragile Planet, Westmont College, Santa Barbara

2016:

“The Anthropocenic Lyric: Measuring and Modeling Crisis.” Invited speaker at U.C. San Diego’s Interdisciplinary Forum for Environmental Research.

“Poetics of Drought: Language, Remediation, and Landscape,” AWP 2016; Moderator and Organizer

“The Anthropocenic Lyric” on the panel, “Anthropocene and Deep Time,” MLA, Austin, TX. Sponsored by 20th- & 21st-Century American Literary Forum

2015:

“Teaching and Writing in the Anthropocene: New Methods, Forms, and Approaches,” Colorado State University English Dept. Colloquium, Spring 2015

“The Anthropocenic Crisis in Contemporary Ecopoetics”
on the panel “Cultivating and Communicating Crisis in Ecopoetics,” (ASLE Sponsored Panel), The Conference on Communication and Environment (COCE) in Boulder, CO; Panel Organizer and Presenter

“The Anthropocenic Lyric,” Association for Literature and the Environment (ASLE), Moscow, Idaho

2014:

“The Body Poems,” Western Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature (CCL), Westmont College, CA

“Barry Lopez’s Ethic of Desire: Learning to Love the Wasteland,” Searching for Place: Interpretations of the Environment and Landscape, University of Wyoming

“Conduit: Movement Across Bodies in Gary Snyder’s ‘Night Highway 99,'” Southwest Popular and American Culture Association (SWPACA), Albuquerque, NM

Honors, Awards & Contests

2020: Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Educational Foundation Dissertation Writing Fellowship

2019: Winner, Tupelo Press Sunken Garden Chapbook Prize; Dissertation Fellowship, Phi Kappa Phi

2018: Celeste Turner Wright Poetry Prize, sponsored by Academy of American Poets & UC Davis

2017: National Poetry Series Finalist for “Fossils in the Making”

2016: Henry David Thoreau Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center; Cleveland State University First Book Contest, Finalist

2015: CSU Conference Travel Grant; Academy of American Poets College Prize, CSU; John Clark Pratt Award, CSU.

2014: Graduate Professional Development in Composition and Pedagogy Travel/Conference Award; Cleveland State University First Book Contest, Finalist; Image Journal, June 2014 “Artist of the Month”; AWP Intro to Journals Project: Honorable Mention for “Exchange Body”; Academy of American Poets College Prize, Colorado State University for “Resurrection Body”; CSU Liberal Arts Department Outstanding Literary Essay Award (2nd place) for “‘That the Science of Cartography is Limited’: How Eavan Boland Recontextualizes Ireland’s Postcolonial Bodies and Environments”

2013-14 & 2014-15: Colorado State University English Faculty/Staff Graduate Scholarship

2013: Graduate Professional Development in Composition and Pedagogy Travel/Conference Award, CSU Liberal Arts Department Outstanding Literary Essay Award (1st place) for “Material Entanglement: How Breath Bridges Body and Mind, Human and More-Than-Human World in Gary Snyder’s Poetics”

2012-2013 Phi Kappa Phi Fellow

2012-2015 Lilly Graduate Fellow

2010: Co-Winner of Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s International Barbara Mandigo Kelly Poetry Peace Prize

2009: Westmont College English Department Award: 1st Senior in Major of Graduating Class

2008, 2009: Arthur Lynip Award Recipient chosen by English Department Faculty

2007-2009: Member of: Sigma Tau Delta, English Honors Society, Phi Kappa Phi: Interdisciplinary Honor Society, Omicron Delta Kappa: Leadership Honor Society

2005-2009: Presidential Scholar for Westmont College; Dean’s List

Work History

Aug 2022- present: Manager of Policy Research and Knowledge Sharing, Building Decarbonization Coalition

2021-July 2022: Senior Research Associate, Building Decarbonization Coalition

2015-2022: Associate Instructor, University of California, Davis

2014-2020: Poetry Editor, Ruminate Magazine

2014-2015: Database & Website Administrator and Creative Associate, Habitat for Humanity, Loveland, CO

2012-2015 Associate Editor & Book Review Copy Editor at Colorado Review Literary Magazine

Copy Editor for Hungry Moon by Henrietta Goodman, Mountain West Poetry Series, Center for Literary Publishing (CLP) (2013); Proof Reader for Intimacy by Catherine Imbriglio, Colorado Prize for Poetry, CLP (2013); Book Designer for The Logan Notebooks by Rebecca Lindenberg, CLP (2015); Cover Designer for Songs by Derek Henderson, CLP (2015)

2013-15: Social Media & Content Manager for Changing Climates CSU

2012-2015: Instructor of Record for College Composition (C0 150)  & Intro to Creative Writing (E-210)at Colorado State University

2011-2012: Volunteer Poetry reader for Ploughshares  Literary Magazine.

2010-2012:

           Development Director, Sarah House, a non-profit hospice in Santa Barbara

           Freelance grant writer for Santa Barbara non-profit organizations