Publications
Full-Length Collections:
How to Abandon Ship: A Book of Poems, Four Way Books, 2024
Failure and I Bury the Body, Harper Perennial (National Poetry Series), 2013
Anthologies and Art Exhibitions:
The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood, “War Songs: Mothering through Climate Change” (essay) and “Recognition”(poem reprint), ed.s Emily Pérez and Nancy Reddy, (University of Georgia Press, 2022)
The Great Turning: We Gather, We Grow, We Tend. (Hollis Hammonds and Sasha West as Hammonds + West collaborative exhibit), Grace Museum, Abilene, (forthcoming June 2025)
Awake in the Dark. (Hollis Hammonds and Sasha West as Hammonds + West collaborative exhibit), Austin Public Library (Nov-Dec 2021), College of the Mainland (April-May 2022), Columbus College of Art and Design (Nov-Dec 2022), ArtPrize Michigan 2023, St. Edward’s University Fine Arts Gallery (Oct 2024), Art League Houston (May-July 2025)
A Dark Wood Grew Inside Me: Hollis Hammonds and Sasha West (collaborative exhibit), Texas A&M University’s Wright Gallery (Oct-Nov 2020), San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts (July-Sept 2021), Austin Public Library (Nov-Dec 2021), and a portion in group exhibit The Femme Abstract (Jan 2020). Featured in “5 Minutes of Drawing with Hollis Hammonds” series for the University of Lisbon.
Out of Time: Poetry from the Climate Emergency, “Cassandra: The Second End”, ed. Kate Simpson, 2021, Valley Press, UK
Echoes off a Canyon Wall: Images of the Western Cordillera, “Janus,” collaborative project with Museum of the Big Bend in Alpine, 2018
Still Life with Poem: 100 Natures Mortes in Verse, “That Bit of Sage,” Literary House Press, 2016
International Festival of Literature, Kosmopolis, Barcelona, Spain, “Zoology,” March 2011
Penned: Zoo Poems, “Zoology,” (reprint) Signal Editions, 2010
Against Agamemnon: War Poetry, “Solitude, Communion,” Waterwood Press, 2009
The Weight of Addition: An Anthology of Texas Poetry, “Canto XX {Lazarus},” Mutabilis Press, 2008
Textbooks:
Rist, Mary and Sasha West. “Creative Writing for Professional Writing Majors.” Exploring, Experiencing, and Envisioning Integration in US Arts Education. ed. Nancy Hensel (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
Poems:
Ecotone, “Cassandra [It wasn’t easy to see, to say],” (forthcoming)
Poetry Northwest, “Cassandra [And if, in one version],” (forthcoming)
The Rupture, “The Logic of Growth,” and “Tragedy of the Commons” (June 2022)
The Missouri Review, “Fossil Fuels,” online Poem of the Week, Apr. 2022
The Florida Review, “Cassandra [Increasingly the raw flicker],” 2021
Pleiades, “Storytelling,” 2021
Tribes Magazine, “Storming the Wall,” “Let Me Sing to You Now,” and “How to Abandon Ship” [One way: stop pretending], 2021
Plume, “Cassandra [Some days I could go quietly into the spot where],” 2021
Notre Dame Review, “The Uncanny Valley of the World,” 2020
Agni, “The Long Emergency,” 2020 (reprinted in Mass Poetry series “The Hard Work of Hope”)
Georgia Review, “Recognition,” “Market at the Children’s Museum,” “What Proximity Does My Life Have to the Life of the World,” 2020
Tupelo Quarterly, “A Forgery of History,” 2019
The American Poetry Review, “How to Abandon Ship” [Cows Calve], 2019 (reprinted on Poetry Daily, Dec. 7, 2019)
The Laurel Review, “Doubt,” 2019
Crazyhorse, “Habitable,” 2019
Diode, “Isolationism” and “Triage” (nominated for Best of the Net), 2018
Cincinnati Review, “McMurdo Station, Antarctica,” 2018
Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, “Tail Event,” “Pact,” and reprint of “Husbands are Deadlier than Terrorists,” interview, 2018
Bennington Review, “Ocean Triptych,” 2017
Silk Road, “The Uncanny Condition," "Newtok, Alaska," and "Goat That Departs,” 2017
45th Parallel, “The List of Broken Things,” and “Husbands Are Deadlier Than Terrorists,” 2017
Kenyon Review Online, “We’ve Not Long Come In,” 2017
reprinted by Poems2Go Public Poetry Project, 2017
Copper Nickel, “[those were the days of],” 2017
Carve, “To Fix the Ache,” and “Leviathan,” 2017
Rappahannock Review, "Siberia,” and “Museum of Natural History #37, {Helen Keller},” 2015
Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, "The Immaculate Conception of Loneliness,” 2014
New South, "Our Last Meal,” 2014
Poetry Daily, "Project for a Machine for Grasping,” [reprint] 2013
The Southern Review, “Corpse’s Lullaby,” and “Golden Mean,” 2013
Third Coast, “Forged with the Stars of Distant Fire,” 2013
32 Poems, “We Navigate the River of Tar Under That Tethered Balloon of Light,” Iss. 11.1, 2013
Green Mountains Review, “Courting Manual for Failure,” " In re: Failure, Body Where Tar and Light Meet,” "As it Appears Underneath a Cloud…," "Agriculture Begins:," 2013
"Agriculture Begins:," reprinted on Poetry Daily, 2013
New Madrid, “Winter,” “Failure Recounts His Time in the Pulpit,” and “Failure’s Sermon,” 2013
Salt Hill, “Failure’s Dream,” 2013
The Journal, “Thou Art Thou,” 2013
B O D Y, “Every Day a New Pair of Sunglasses, Every Day a New Hat,” and “Antarctica, Redux,” 2013
r.kv.r.v.y., “Fecundity, Expanse,” 2013
Redivider, "What it Used to Be Like," 2013
West Branch, “Failure’s Projects in Detritus and Disease,” 2013
Sonora Review, “Partage: Dividing of the Spoils,” “Failure and I Bury the Body,” and “Failure and I Bury the Body, Redux,” Iss. 63, 2013
South Dakota Review, “We Have Left Undone Those Things We Ought to Have Done,” and “The Boxing Up, the Keeping of {You}”, 2012
Permafrost, “The Interior Paramour Sends a Telegram, Sinks a Time Capsule, Sings,” 2012
Tusculum Review, “Blood Orange,” 2012
The Journal, “The Woods,” “Museum of Natural History, #5, The Painters of Lasceaux,” 2012
Potomac Review, “Castaway,” Issue 51, 2011
The Laurel Review, “Whom the Gods Would Destroy, They First Make Famous,” 2011
Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, “The Earth Is a Spartan Lover,” 2011
La Fovea, “The Mind of the Thoroughbred Horse Racing,” “Meditations II,” 2010
Callaloo, “Museum of Natural History #12, Bench Seating at the Atomic Test, 6/4/53,”
“Theories of Language,” “Consider, T. H.,” 2009
Forklift, OH, “Meditations,” 2009
Pebble Lake Review, “The Journalist Speaks,” “All the Clichés of the Heart,” 2008
Ninth Letter, “Everything That Is Me Is With Me,” 2007
Margie, “Ballad of the Lonely Cow’s Eye,” 2007
American Poet, Emerging Writers Feature, “Prayer: Happiness is characterized by muddy inaccuracies,” excerpts from “The Immaculate Conception of Loneliness,” (Introduced by Nick Flynn), 2007
Poetry Midwest, “At Night, They Crow to Each Other in the Trees,” 2006
Faultline, “Always at the Crime Scene,” 2006
American Letters & Commentary, “The Buzzing World, The Lisping Firmament,” “Zoology,” 2005
reprinted by Born, “Zoology,” 2009
The Canary, “Naming,” 2004
Third Coast, “Elegy for a Living Father,” 2002
Campbell Corner/Sarah Lawrence, “Orpheus & Eurydice,” “Cassandra,” “Odysseus,” 2002
Baltimore City Paper, “The Hairdresser,” “Oswego Tea,” 2002
Book Reviews, Interviews, Edited Blog Posts:
Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Review of Little Seed by Wei Tchou, 2022
Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Review of Bright Specimen by Julie Poole, 2022
Letras Latinas, “Across the Threshold of Emily Pérez’s House of Sugar, House of Stone,” 2016
Rapphannock Review, Interviewed by Editors, 2015
New Madrid, Failure and I Bury the Body reviewed by Evelyn Conley, 2014
Borderlands, Interviewed by Ryan Sharp, Failure and I Bury the Body reviewed by Ben Kopel, 2014
Austin Chronicle, Failure and I Bury the Body reviewed by Jonelle Seitz, 2014
Green Mountains Review, Failure and I Bury the Body reviewed by Gina Keicher, 2014
“Anthropoetry,” Vancouver Community Library, Vancouver, WA, April 2014
Poets & Writers, Interview and “Breaking Through the Noise,” Failure and I Bury the Body selected by Victoria Chang for debut poets issue, Jan/Feb 2014
Open Book Blog (Inprint), “A Road Trip with Failure: A Conversation with Sasha West,” Feb. 2014
Austin American-Statesman, Failure and I Bury the Body reviewed by Charles Ealy, 2013
Washington Independent Review of Books, Failure and I Bury the Body reviewed by Grace Cavalieri, 2013
New Pages, Review of 32 Poems, December 2013
r.kv.r.y, Interviewed by Mary Akers, September 2013
Potomac Review blog, “One Thing I’ve Learned,” July 10, 2012
Chelsea, Book Reviews, Timothy Liu’s For Dust Thou Art, Issue 81; Sabrina Orah Mark’s The Babies, Issue 81; Kathleen Graber’s Correspondence, Issue 80; Srikanth; Reddy’s Facts for Visitors, Issue 78; Olena Kalytiak Davis’s Shattered Sonnets… Issue 76
Gulf Coast, Interview, “There is Light and There is Dark,” with C. Dale Young, 2004 (Reprinted in Poetry Daily), Book Review, “Echo and Interlude: Amy Randolph’s Cold Angel of Mercy,” 2003
Poetry Foundation Journals, Bread Loaf Entry, Summer 2006
Teaching Experience
St. Edward’s University
Associate Professor of Creative Writing, Aug 2019-present; Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, Aug 2015-2019
Poetry I, ENGW 2301/WRIT 2312; Poetry II, ENGW 3307/WRIT 3322; Special Topics: Environmental Writing, WRIT 3310, WRIT 2304, WRIT 2316; Special Topics: Hybrid Genre, ENGW 3310; Worldbuilding in Dystopias, FSTY 1330/FSEM 1403; Dystopian Worlds, Utopian Aims, FSEM 1403; Introduction to Creative Writing, ENGW 2300/WRIT 2300; Senior Thesis, HONS 4399; Investigating Creativity Seminar, HONS 2160; Rhetoric and Composition I, HONS 3315: The Art & Science of Environmental Narratives; FSTY 1311
The University of Texas at Austin, LBJ School of Public Affairs
Lecturer/Writing Center Director, Aug 2012-July 2015
Writing for Global Policy Studies, PA388K; Professional Writing Seminars for Public Policy Graduate Students
Rice University
Parks Fellow/Visiting Writer-in-Residence, Aug 2007-Dec 2009
Faculty Adviser, R2: Rice Review, 2007-08; Advanced Poetry Workshop, ENG 404; Poetry Workshop, ENG 304; Introduction to Creative Writing (multi-genre), ENG 201; Advanced Fiction Workshop, Directed Reading, ENG 493
University of Houston
Honors College—Lecturer, Jan-Aug 2007—Human Situations II, Modernity: Structures of Authority, HON 2101H; Human Situations: Violence, Rhetoric, & Community, ENG 1303H
Department of English—Teaching Fellow, Aug 2002-May 2003, Aug-Dec 2006—Creative Writing Workshop: Poetry, ENG 3331; Introduction to Rhetoric, ENG 1304; Introduction to Fiction: Alienation and Modernism, ENG 2305
Inprint Inc.
Workshop Leader, Sept 2005-May 2008—Personal Essay Workshop; Poetry Workshop for Teachers as Writers; Poetry Workshop
Towson University
Adjunct Professor, Aug 2000-May 2002—Professional Writing for Early Childhood Educators
Carver Center for Arts and Technology
Writer-in-Residence, Nov 1999-May 2002—Poetic Traditions, Creative Writing Workshop: Introduction to Fiction
Johns Hopkins University
Lecturer, Dec 1999-May 2000—Introduction to Fiction and Poetry (guest lectures), The Science of Poetry, the Poetics of Science (intersession)
Other Professional Experience
St. Edward’s University
Interim Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence, July 2024-present
Interim Director of General Education Program, Jan.-May 2022 (for a colleague on sabbatical)
Founder/Coordinator, Environmental Humanities Minor, 2022-present
Coordinator, Creativity and Making program for General Education, 2020-present
Coordinator, Women’s and Gender Studies Program, 2020-2022
Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts
President, Board of Directors, 2007-2012; Member, Board of Directors, 2006-2015; Member, Advisory Board, 2015-present
Editor-in-Chief, 2003-2006; Poetry Reader, 2002-2003
The University of Texas at Austin, LBJ School of Public Affairs, Office of Conferences & Training
Seminar Leader, Jan 2015-2018—Politics and Public Policy Program (for international, mid-career graduate students), Write to the Point (for mid-career public service and nonprofit employees)
Menil Collection
Poetry Curator, 2009, 2012
Badgerdog/American Short Fiction
Director of Development, 2011-2012
Brazos Bookstore
Poetry Curator/Reading Series Coordinator, 2006-2007
University Art Gallery, University of California San Diego
Arts Outreach Program Co-Founder and Coordinator, 1996-1999
Readings/Interviews/Panels
AWP off-site reading for The Long Devotion anthology with Joan Naviyuk Kane, Erika Meitner, Keetje Kuipers, Camille Guthrie, The Head and The Hand Bookstore, March 2022
“Fresh from the Studio” Women & Their Work, Dec. 2021
Inprint Gala (with George Saunders), Feb. 2021
LOGOS Poetry Collective, Lazarus Brewing Co., July 2019
SEU Faculty Reading (organizer/reader), Malvern Books, March 2018, April 2019
ACC Literary Coffeehouse, Malvern Books, February 2019
One Page Salon/Writers’ League of Texas, North Door, TX, December 2018
Public Poetry, “Power” anthology launch, Clayton Library, Houston, November 2018
Organizer and Host, Oracular Spectacular, (Laurie Filipelli, Niki Herd, Analicia Sotelo, Tommy Pico), Lit Crawl, Texas Book Festival, October 2018
Risograph Lab/Poetry II Chapbook Release (organizer/emcee), Malvern Books, May 2018
Borderlands issue launch, Malvern Books, January 2018
“Echoes off a Canyon Wall : Images of the Western Cordillera,” Jim Bones Exhibition, Museum of the Big Bend, Alpine, TX, January 2018
Organizer and Host, Oracular Spectacular, (Chen Chen, Eileen Myles, Erika Sanchez, Matthew Zapruder), Lit Crawl, Texas Book Festival, November 2017
Revel (chamber music), “Time Will Dim the Moon,” 4th Tap, Austin, TX, June 2017
Reading with Chloe Honum, Jennifer Cheng, Malvern Books, May 2017
Lit Crawl/Texas Book Festival Reading, Fusebox Festival, Al Volta’s Midnight Bar, April 2017
PEN USA/Writers Resist, BookPeople, January 2017
Featured Reader, BookWoman Open Thurs Series Hosted by Cindy Huyser, December 2016
Organizer and Host, Oracular Spectacular, (Eileen Myles, Safiya Sinclair, Orlando Ricardo Menes, J. Scott Brownlee, Carmen Tafolla), Lit Crawl, Texas Book Festival, November 2016
Gemini Ink, Tacoland Reading Series, San Antonio, TX, November 2016
Bread Loaf Fellows Reading, August 2016
Badgerdog/Austin Public Library Foundation Celebration, July 2016
“All the Rage”/Sam Sax Chapbook Release, June 2016
Poetry Festival at Round Top, Featured Poet, April 2016
Marcia Kinsey Visiting Writers’ Series, St. Edward’s University, Austin, TX, 2016
Organizer and Host, “You Should Know These Poets,” (Cyrus Cassells, Carrie Fountain, Tomas Morin, Paul Otremba, Juliana Spahr), Lit Crawl, Texas Book Festival, October 2015
Fierce Visionaries (with Robin Davison, Carol Denson, and Susan Wood), BookWoman, July 2015
Strange Pilgrims (with Carrie Fountain, Laurie Filipelli, Lisa Olstein, and Laurie Saurborn Young), BookWoman, Austin, TX, May 2015
Poetry Spectacular, (with Chad Bennett, Jason Bayani, Derrick Brown, Loyce Gayo; curated by Sam Sax), Austin Java, Austin, TX, March 2015
Houston Poetry Fest, Houston, TX, October 2014
Writing on the Air (Radio KOOP), Borderlands launch, September 2014
Malvern, Borderlands launch, September 2014
Public Poetry Series, Houston, TX, January 2014
Bookpeople, Austin, TX 2014
Tiny Park, Austin, TX, November 2013
Texas Book Festival, Literary Death Match, October 2013
Gulf Coast annual gala, Keynote Speaker, Houston, TX, November 2013
Austin-American Statesman, “Building a Life Through Poetry,” Interview, April 2013
Tribute to Nora Ephron, BookWoman, Austin, TX, July 2012
UH Honors College, Common Grounds Institute, Houston, TX, 2010
Barnes and Noble Woodlands, Houston, TX, 2007, 2010
Kaboom Books, Nanofiction Reading Series, Houston, TX, 2009
Rudyard’s, Gulf Coast Poetry Tour Launch, Houston, TX, 2009
NPR affiliate, Poets’ Corner, Featured Reader, Houston, TX, 2009
Poison Pen, Poison Girl, Houston, TX, 2008
NPR affiliate, “Front Row” Arts Program, Houston, TX, 2004, 2005, 2009
Rice University, Cherry Reading Series, Poetry and Poetics Colloquium, Houston, TX, 2007, 2008
New York Public Library/CLMP, Joint Journal Reading, 2006
Brazos Bookstore, Gulf Coast Reading Series, Houston, TX, 2002, 2007
Club Re, Krakow, Poland, 2003, 2006
Maryland Institute College of Art, St. Valentine’s Day Marathon, Baltimore, MD, 2002
Reading Institute, Baltimore, MD, 2002
Selected Presentations & Conference Papers
Moderator (Roger Reeves, Jimmy Santiago Baca), Texas Book Festival, November 2022
Moderator “Tequila and Blues: Troubadours of Texas,” (Lupe Mendez, Barbara Ras, Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson), San Antonio Book Festival, May 2022
“Awake in the Dark: Writing Grief and Hope in the Natural World,” Poetry Festival at Round Top, April 2021
“Genre Session Poetry,” Writers’ League of Texas UnConference, June 2020
“Well Versed: Reading and Writing Poetry,” Writers’ League of Texas Third Thursday, May 2020
“Strangers in a Changing Land: Poets on Living and Working in Texas” (panel chair and presenter), AWP, San Antonio, TX, 2020 (cancelled due to COVID-19)
“Sharpening Your Descriptive Powers,” Texas Writes at Wimberley Village Library, Writers’ League of Texas, May 2019; Texas Writes in Austin, Writers’ League of Texas, Nov. 2019
Introducer/Interlocutor “Poet Jericho Brown: The Tradition,” Texas Book Festival, October 2019
“Using Creative Assignments in General Education Classes,” St. Edward’s University Teaching Symposium, 2019
“Vulnerability as a Radical Act” (panel chair and presenter), AWP, Portland, OR, 2019; Gemini Ink 2018 Writers Conference, San Antonio, TX, July 2016
Moderator “Place of Verse: Poetry of the Earth,” (Traci Brimhall, Cyrus Cassells, Aimee Nezhukumatathil), Texas Book Festival, November 2018
“The Politics of Craft” (panel chair), AWP, Miami, FL, 2018
“Writing Assignments for the Anthropocene,” AWP, Miami, FL, 2018
Moderator “Why Poetry?,” (Jill Bialosky, Matthew Zapruder), Texas Book Festival, November 2017
“Making Meaning,” Week-long Workshop, Writers’ League of Texas, August 2017
“Straight Up: Honing the Craft of Being Overt,” Poetry Festival at Round Top, April 2017
“Gulf Coast: 30 Years in the Life of a Student-Run Journal,” AWP, Washington, DC, 2016 (panel chair)
“Larger Than Life: Using Allegories and Celebrities to Build Worlds,” Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, August 2016
“Emerging Texas Poets,” Gemini Ink 2016 Writers Conference, San Antonio, TX, July 2016
“Single Shots: What to Do with Stories, Essays, and Poems,” Writers’ League of Texas Agents & Editors Conference, June 2016
“Using Allegories and Celebrities for Drafting,” Poetry Festival at Round Top, April 2016; Texas Teen Book Festival, October 2016
“The Place of Poetry,” (with Maurice Manning, Rosemary Catacalos, and Dorianne Laux) Poetry Festival at Round Top, April 2016
Poetry Seminar, Austin Poetry Society, November 2015
Moderator “The Poets,” (Gregory Pardlo, Nick Flynn, Rachel Eliza Griffiths), Texas Book Festival, October 2015
Poetry Panel, Writers’ League of Texas Third Thursday Event, Bookpeople, May 2015
“Introduction to the Poetic Line,” Houston Seminar (series with Tony Hoagland and Ed Hirsch), April 2015
Moderator “A Poetic Reworking of History,” Texas Book Festival, (Jericho Brown and Tess Taylor), 2014
“Writing Wrongs: Tips for Teaching Effective Communication in a Public Affairs Classroom,” NASPAA/APPAM, Albuquerque, NM, 2014
“Presence and Absence: A Workshop on Erasures,” Public Poetry, Houston, TX, 2014
“The Art of the Essay” Women in Visual and Literary Arts, Houston, TX, 2009
“The Relevance of Art in a Technological Age,” St. Stephen’s Episcopal High, Houston, TX, 2007
“The Poetics of Eros: Anne Carson and Anna Swir’s Use of Desire as Models for 20th c. Rhetoric,” Krakow International Poetry Seminar, 2006
“Curating a Literary Journal: The Current State of Publishing,” sponsored by CLMP, AWP, Austin, TX, 2006 (panel chair)
“Publication and Conference Papers,” UH Graduate Colloquium on Publishing, 2006; UH Professional Development Series, Houston, TX, 2004
“Zbiegnew Herbert’s Prose Poems,” Krakow International Poetry Seminar, Krakow, Poland, 2003
“Creating a Literary Arts Curriculum in a Magnet High School,” National Council for Teachers of English (NCATE), Baltimore, MD, 2001
Education
Ph.D., Literature and Creative Writing, Poetry, University of Houston
M.A., The Writing Seminars, Poetry, Johns Hopkins University
B.A., General Literature and Psychology, University of California San Diego, Phi Beta Kappa, cum laude with honors
Awards
Innovation Fellow, St. Edward’s University, 2022-23
Hudspeth Innovative Teaching Award, St. Edward’s University, 2022
St. Edward’s University Scholarship, Pedagogical Innovation, Creative Expression (SPICE) Awards for Research, eight annual awards, 2015-20, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24
Black Lawrence Press Hudson Prize, Finalist, 2021
Four Way Books Larry Levis Prize, Finalist, 2021
Distinguished Teaching Award, St. Edward’s University, 2020
Gingko Prize (international ecological poetry prize), Highly Commended Poem, 2019
Council for Arts & Humanities Grant, 2017-2018
St. Edward’s Presidential Excellence Summer Grant, 2016, 2017
NetVUE QEP Grant, 2016-2017
Rome Prize Nominee, 2017
Pushcart Prize, Nominee, 2006, 2009, 2016
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Fellowship, 2016
Texas Poet Laureate Nominee, 2014, 2022
Texas Institute of Letters Bob Bush First Book of Poetry Award, 2013
National Poetry Series Winner, Open Competition, (selected by D. Nurkse), 2012
Madroño Ranch Residency, 2011
Academy of American Poets, Walt Whitman First Book Contest, Semifinalist, 2008, 2009
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Louis B Untermayer Tuition Scholarship, 2009
Established Artist Grant, Houston Arts Alliance, 2008
Inprint/Verlaine Poetry Prize (formerly the Michener), 2007
University of Houston, C. Glenn Cambor Fellowship, 2002-2007
University of Houston, Stella Ehrhardt Doctoral Fellowship, 2002-2007
University of Houston, Teaching Fellowship, 2002-2007
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Work-Study Fellowships, 2004-2007
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Head Social Staff, 2006, 2007
Krakow International Poetry Conference, Fellowship and Travel Grant, 2003,2006
Omicron Delta Kappa, leadership honor society, inducted 2005
Atlantic Monthly Student Competition, Honorable Mention, 2002
National Foundation for Advancement in Arts, Teacher Recognition Award, 2002
Johns Hopkins University, Graduate Fellowship in Poetry, 1999-2000
Service
Faculty Committee for Diversity and Inclusion, 2020-present
Judge, Keene Prize for Literature, University of Texas Austin, 2020-present
Organizer, Marcia Kinsey Visiting Writers Series, 2017-2019, 2020-2021, 2022-2024
Curriculum Committee/Academic Council, 2022-present
Volunteer, Blanton Elementary School, 2018-present
Member, Literary Women in Action, 2017-present
Faculty Advisor, Sorin Oak Review, 2016-2017, 2019-2021
General Education Oversight Committee, 2022
Member, Common Read Committee, 2019, 2022
Faculty Mentor/Advisor, SOURCE Undergraduate Research Presentation, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Member, Admissions Advocacy Committee, 2019-2021
Member, Teaching, Learning, and Technology Round Table (TLTR), 2019-2021
Coordinator, Utopia/Dystopia Learning Community, 2019
Member, AWP San Antonio Conference & Bookfair Subcommittee, 2019-2020
Volunteer, Citizens Climate Education, 2017-2019
Member, School of Arts and Humanities Web Team, 2017-2019
Member, Teaching Symposium Committee, 2018, 2019
Judge, Balcones Poetry Prize, Austin Community College, 2019
Member, Council Arts and Humanities, 2017-2018
Member, Financial Aid and Student Success Committee, 2016-2018
Faculty Advisor, Senior Honors Thesis, 2016
Judge, “Power” Contest, Public Poetry, Spring 2018
Judge, San Antonio’s Tricentennial Poetry Contest, Gemini Ink, Fall 2017
Judge, Academy of American Poets/Gutnow Award, University of Texas at Austin, 2017
Judge, Writers’ League of Texas Book Awards, 2014, 2016
Search Committee Member, Associate Director of First-Year Writing, 2017
Judge, Cento Contest, Austin Poetry Society, 2016
Judge, Inprint Marion Barthelme Prize in Creative Writing, 2015
Judge, Cargoes Poetry Competition (Hollins University), 2015
Judge, NEA/Poetry Out Loud, Texas State Finals, 2013
Member, Gulf Coast/Art Lies Incorporation subcommittee, 2011-2013
Judge, Center for Talented Youth magazine, Imagine, Johns Hopkins University, 2013
Panelist, Houston Arts Alliance, Grants Review, 2007-2009
Volunteer Reader, Taping for the Blind, 2008-2010
Committee Member, Honors College and Senior Theses, UH, 2005, 2006, 2009
Elected Graduate Student Representative in Poetry, UH, 2006-2007
Graduate Student Representative, Hiring Committee UH, 2004, 2006
Co-Founder, Houston Indie Lit Fair (later part of MenilFest), 2004
Member, Various Committees, including: Ph.D. Requirements, Textbook Selection for Rhetoric ENG1304, Creative Writing Curriculum Proposal, 2003-2007
Pedagogy Panel Member, Teacher Orientation, UH Creative Writing Program, 2003
Judge, Reading Rainbow Young Writers Contest, PBS, 2003
Graduate Reading Series Co-Founder & Coordinator, Johns Hopkins University, 1999-2000