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EDUCATION

‍ MFA in Creative Writing, Poetry, May, 2011University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Department of English

Bachelor of Arts in English, August 2007

University of Texas Pan American

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS ‍

Associate Professor/Editor-in-Chief—Lamar University Department of English and Modern Languages/Lamar University Literary Press, Beaumont, Texas (2017-Present)

Lecturer I-II—Department of Writing and Language Studies, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX, 2012-2017

Instructor—English Department, South Texas College, 2011-2012

Academic Advisor—College of Arts and Humanities, University of Texas Pan American, Edinburg, TX 2009-2011

PUBLICATIONs

            Books

Poetry Collections, Full-length, single author

Pandora’s Prairie (Cornerstone Press, University of Wisconsin Steven’s Point), 2025

Flare Stacks in Full Bloom, Texas Review Press (Sam Houston State University, 2023) Winner of the Summerlee Book Prize

‍ The Lost Chronicles of Slue Foot Sue, Angelina River Press, 2018

‍ ‍Goddess Wears Cowboy Boots, Lamar University Literary Press, 2014, Winner of the 2015 Helen C. Smith Prize from the Texas Institute of Letters

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The Garden Uprooted, Slough Press, 2012

Poetry Chapbooks

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Prairie Madness, North Dakota State University Press, 2021

Winner of the 2021 Poetry of the Plaines and Prairies (POPP) Award

The Garden of Dresses, Mouthfeel Press 2011

Among the Mariposas, Mouthfeel Press 2010, Winner of the 2009 Nuestra Voz

Prize for border women poets

Edited Collections

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Odes and Elegies: Eco-Poetry from the Texas Gulf Coast, (Lamar University Literary Press), Editor, Published in conjunction with the Center for History and Culture of Southeast Texas and the Upper Gulf Coast at Lamar University, 2020

Literary Journals

5 poems, CCTE Studies, Winner of the 2024 Poetry Prize, 2024.

“If Babies Grew as Readily as Corn,” “Pandora in Omaha,” The Pierian, 2023.

‍ ‍“The Deposit,” “Pandora in 2020,” I-70 Review, 2023.

‍ ‍“Love Poem to Big Tex,” Pippa Passes in Waco,” Phantasma,” “Helen of Troy’s Make-up Tutorial,” “The Legend of Lobo Girl,” “Lobo Girl, the Cowboy’s Love Story,” “The Capture of Lobo Girl,” “Lobo Girl’s Escape,” “Lobo Girl’s Advice to Ladies,” Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, 20th Anniversary Edition, Tarleton State University, Fall 2

  “My Father Howling,” Panoply, 2023

‍ “Pandora’s Prairie,” and “Rewilding,” Literary Imagination, Oxford University Press, Spring 2022

‍ ‍“Self Portrait as a Flood Plain,” Texas Poetry Calendar, Kallisto Gaia Press, 2022

‍ ‍“Manifest Destiny,” One, Jacar Press, Fall 2022

‍ ‍“Flo and I Hike Along the Platte,” Juked, Fall 2022

‍ ‍“Tumbleweeds,” Border Crossings, Lake Superior State University, Fall 2022

‍ ‍“The Deposit,” I70 Review, Fall 2022 (Forthcoming)

‍ ‍“Elegy for Philomela’s Tongue,” Concrete Desert, California State University San Bernardino, Spring 2022 (Winner of the Julie Sophia Paegle Memorial Poetry Prize)

‍ ‍“Elegy for a Pair of Steel-Toed Work Boots,” K’in (Fall 2021)

‍ ‍“The Day I Drove a Pick-up Truck in Houston,” Texas Poetry Assignment, (Fall 2021)

‍ ‍“My Mother’s Hair Is Falling Out,” West Trestle Review (Spring 2022)

‍ ‍“Eve, Quarantined,” Wonderous Real, (Fall 2021)

‍ ‍“What Cassandra Knew” Poetry South, Mississippi University for Women(Fall 2021)

‍ ‍“Confession,” Rathalla Review (Fall 2021)

‍ ‍“The Beekeeper’s Aubade” Summerset Review, Fall 2021

‍ ‍“Hunger,” Tipton Review, Spring 2021

‍ ‍“Memory,” The MacGuffin, Spring 2021

‍ ‍“Spring in Houston,” Apricity (University of Texas at Austin), Spring 2022

‍ ‍“Lightning Bugs,” Texas Poetry Assignment, June 2021

‍ ‍“The Infestation,” Texas Poetry Assignment, March 2021

‍ ‍“America the Patient” Texas Poetry Assignment, January 2021

‍ ‍“Hope Like Wildflowers,” The Lake (UK), Spring 2021

‍ ‍“Night Shift, Baytown,” Texas Poetry Calendar 2021, Kallisto Gallo Press

‍ ‍“Uncanny Valley,” “Beaumont Bloom,” “Urban Jungle,” Delta Poetry Review,

‍ ‍Fall 2020 (Nominated for a Pushcart Prize)

‍ ‍“Inauguration, 2017,” Texas Poetry Ballots, November 2020

‍ ‍“Making Beans While Under Quarantine,” Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, ‍0220

‍ ‍“Flare Stack Eden,” Rougarou, Spring 2020.

‍ ‍“The Day Before Another Apocalypse,” Glass Poetry, Spring 2020

‍ ‍“The Body’s Apocalypse,” Tipton Poetry, Spring 2020

‍ ‍“Praise the Grocery Worker,” Tejas Covido, 2020.

‍ ‍“Boom Town,” Summerset Review, Spring 2020

‍ ‍“Katy Prairie, May,” and “Poem for Proctor Street,” San Pedro River Review,

‍ ‍Spring 2020 (Nominated for a Pushcart Prize)

‍ ‍“Resurrection Easter Morning,” Chestnut Review, Spring 2020 (Nominated for a

‍ ‍Pushcart Prize)

‍ ‍“Texas Flamingo,” and “The Great Cerulean Recycling Bin,” Evening Street

‍ ‍Review, Spring 2020

‍ ‍“Monologue of the Plastic Grocery Bag,” Better Than Starbucks Review, Spring

‍ ‍2020

‍ ‍“Beaumont Smoke,” I-70, Fall 2019

‍ ‍“Ms. Faust,” “Poem in Which I Feel Ripped from My Mother’s Arms,” “Why

‍ ‍You Shouldn’t Fall in Love with East Texas,” “Willy Burger After

‍ ‍Harvey,” “The Longleaf Pine,” Writing Texas, 2019

‍ ‍“Before Sweat Had a Name,” Panoply, Fall 2019

‍ ‍“Lupenis Texanis,” Texas Poetry Calendar, 2020

‍ ‍“Self-Portrait as a Coppice of Bluebonnets,” Green Hills Literary Lantern,

‍ ‍Summer 2019

‍ ‍ “My Grandmother Creates the Earth,” “Wintering in the Underworld,” “Two

‍ ‍Lovers and a Rusted Pick-up Truck,” “Running in the Texas Hill

‍ ‍Country,” “Portrait of a Man as a Map of Texas,” New Texas, June 2019

‍ ‍“Helen of Troy Makes an Omelet,” Windward Review, Spring 2019

‍ ‍She Who Swallows Fire,” SCMLA Newsletter, Spring 2019

‍ ‍“Rosarian,” Parentheses, Spring 2019

‍ ‍“Thirteen Ways of Looking at Her Legs,” Voices de la Luna, Spring 2019

‍ ‍“A January Thursday in El Valle,” Poets Reading the News, January 2019

‍ ‍“My Husband Washes His Mustang,” Valparaiso Review, Fall 2018

‍ ‍“Something There Is That Doesn’t Love a Wall,” Poets Reading the News, December 2018

‍ ‍“How to Love in the Borderlands,” Southwestern American Literature, Spring ‍ ‍2018

‍ ‍ “Leaving El Valle” and “Sunrise South Texas” Huisache, Fall 2018

‍ ‍“Eve, Banished, Sunbathes,” “Upon Receiving Bad News,” “The Body Before,” Mezzo Cammin, Fall 2018

‍ ‍“Sal del Rey,” and “Bitter Coffee,” Reunion, Fall 2018

‍ ‍“Beaumont After Harvey,” San Antonio Express News, December 2017

‍ ‍“Take Houston Out to the Ball Game,” Poets in the News, November 2017

‍ ‍“Advice for Thirsty Women,” Texas Poetry Calendar, 2018.‍ ‍

“Legend of Lobo Girl,” “Lobo Girl’s Advice,” “Lobo Girl Stalks the Vaquero,” “Lobo Girl’s Capture,” “Lobo Girl’s Escape,” “Lobo Girl’s Fairy Tale,” “Love Poem to Big Tex,” “Helen of Troy’s Make-up Tutorial,” “Pippa Passes in Waco,” “Phantasma,” Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, 2017

‍ ‍“Love in All Seasons,” “Helen Finds a White Hair,” “A Construction Site in Spring,” “Geography of Eden,” “Black Eyed Susan” Peacock Journal, 2017

‍ “Green Parrots, Christmas Eve,” “She Who Swallows Fire,” Windward Review, 2017

“Spring Cleaning After Eden,” Autumn Sky Poetry, 2017

‍ ‍“Pecos Bill, Awaiting Slue Foot Sue’s Return,” Glass Poetry, 2017

‍ ‍“Eve at Home Depot,” Texas Poetry Calendar, 2017.

‍ ‍“Self Portrait as a Battleground,” “Self Portrait as a Ghost Town,” Switchgrass Review, 2016

‍ “Demeter, After the Solstice,” Alyss Lit, 2016.

‍ ‍“My Suegra’s Molcajete,” Poetry South, 2016

‍ ‍“Woman in the Moon,” Beech Street Review, 2016

‍ ‍“Cat Calls,” Atticus, 2016

‍ ‍“Eve, the Teenage Years,” Southwestern Literature Review, 2016

‍ ‍“Slue Foot Sue’s Cowboy Boots,” Voices de la Luna, 2016

‍ ‍“Adam at Victoria Secret,” “Eve Cleans the Fridge,” “Sirena,” “The Choice,” “Witness Report,” Mezzo Cammin, 2016.

‍ ‍“Eve’s Diet Advice,” Concho River Review, 2016

‍ ‍“Winter in South Texas” Concho River Review, 2015

‍ ‍“The Bad News,” “Hummingbirds,” “Another Art,” “Eve at the Art Museum,” Mezzo Cammin, 2015

‍ “Design Flaw,” THINK Journal (Western Colorado University), 2015.

‍ “Eve Finally Makes Adam a Sandwich,” Free State Review, 2015

‍ ‍“Birth of Slue Foot Sue,” Reports of Strange Happenings Across the West,”

‍ ‍“Sandia,” “It Happened Along the Rio Grande,” “Romance at High Noon,” “Summer Nights,” “Pecos Bill, The Morning After,” “West Texas Love Sonnet in Blank Verse,” “Sue, Dressed to the Nines,” “Wedding March,” “Sue, Over the Moon in Love,” Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, 2015.

‍ “My Last Game at the Diamond,” Raintown Review, 2015

‍ ‍“In the Beginning,” Everyday Poems, 2015.

‍ ‍“At Samson’s Ford,” Mas Tequila Review, 2015.

‍ ‍“For Those Who Search the Peaks of Ararat,” Kentucky Review, 2015.

‍ ‍“Delilah’s Father Takes Her to the Barber Shop,” “Goddess Waters Her Plants,” “Eve’s Happy Hour,” “Seasons of Gold,” Amarillo Bay, 2014.

‍ ‍“What Dolly Did to My Palm Tree,” BorderSenses, 2014.

‍ ‍“Persephone Out Past Curfew,” Pantheon, 2014

‍ ‍“The Flood,” “Cowgirl,” Mezzo Cammin, 2013

‍ ‍“Ashes,” Hawai’I Pacific Review, 2013

‍ ‍“Fall of Girl,” Raintown Review, 2013

‍ ‍“Crawdads,” “Dulce,” Third Wednesday Journal, 2012.

‍ ‍“Peggy’s Cove,” “Eros,” Adanna, 2012

‍ ‍“The Foxtailed Girl,” Barnwood International Poetry Magazine, 2012

‍ ‍“The Queen Palm,” Victorian Violet Journal, 2012

‍ ‍“Summer Song,” “The Garden of Dresses,” Ellipis…, 2012

‍ ‍“La Pulga Beauties,” Front Porch, 2012

‍ ‍“Not the Body, Please,” Ozone Park Journal, 2011

‍ ‍“South Texas Lawn Song,” Conte: A Journal of Narrative Writing, 2011

‍ ‍“The Dance,” “Mother of Sweet Texas Onions,” Platte Valley Review, 2011

‍ ‍“The Cornfields,” “What They Told the Girl with Bitemarks on Her Lips,” Breakwater Review, 2011

‍ ‍“The Girl Who Opened the Door,” BorderSenses, 2011

‍ ‍“Breakfast with Fur,” “The Blue Moment,” Word Riot, 2011

‍ ‍“Good Girls,” Cold Mountain Review, 2010

‍ ‍“South on 281,” Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, 2010

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Anthologies

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“Paloma Wings,” Stained: An Anthology of Writing About Menstruation, Edited

‍ by Rachel Neve-Midbar

“Self-Portrait as a Diamond Back,” I SING: THE BODY, Edited by Rene Saldana ‍ (Flowersong Books, 2021)

‍ ‍“Eve’s Diet Advice,” Eve Poetry (Orison Books, 2021) Forthcoming

‍ ‍“The Bull Rider,” and “Prickly Pear,” By the Light of a Neon Moon, (Madville Press, 2019)

‍ “Eve’s Diet Advice,” Nasty Women Poets Anthology (Lost Horse Press, 2017)

‍ ‍“The Bull Rider,” Houston Poetry Festival Anthology, 2017

‍ ‍“The House Left Unfinished,” Word Fest Poetry Anthology, 2017

‍ ‍“The Bull Rider,” Southern Poetry Anthology: Texas Volume (Texas Review Press, 2017)

‍ ‍“Samson’s Ford,” “Eve Finally Makes Adam a Sandwich,” “Fall of Girl,” Great

‍ ‍American Wise Ass Anthology, Lamar University Literary Press, 2016

‍ ‍“Kitty Leeroy Proposes Marriage,” “How to Be a Woman in a Hostile World,” “Slue Foot Sue to Pecos Bill,” Poetry of the American Southwest 2: Persona

‍ ‍Poems, Dos Gatos Press, 2016.

‍ ‍“How the Body Heals,” Texas Weather: An Anthology, Lamar University Literary ‍Press, 2016.

‍ ‍“Adan y Eva in the Rio Grande Garden of Eden,” The Beatest State in the Union, Lamar University Press, 2015.

‍ ‍“The Bull Rider,” Gulf Stream: Poems from the Gulf Coast, Snake Nation Press, 2013

Book Reviews

Reviews for Monthly Column: “The Beaumont Book Beat” for The Examiner

November 2017-2024, one review per month. Syndicated column.

‍ ‍Natalie Giaratano’s Big Thicket Blues, Georgia Review, 2018

‍ ‍Glen Sorestad’s Water and Rock, Pleiades, 2017

‍ ‍Steve Schneider’s The Magic of the Mariachi, Tupelo Quarterly, 2016.

‍ ‍Sarah Cortez’s Goodbye Mexico, Tupelo Quarterly, 2016

‍ ‍Wings Press’s Her Texas, Pleiades, 2016

‍ ‍Ron Moore’s If In Later Years, Pleiades, 2015

‍ ‍Shelley Puhak’s Guinevere in Baltimore, Inside Higher Ed, 2015

‍ ‍Octavio Quintanilla’s If I Go Missing, Pleiades, 2015

‍ ‍Peggy Tartt’s Firestarters, BorderSenses, 2015

‍ ‍Natalie Giarratano’s Leaving Clean, Boxcar, 2015

‍ ‍Jerry Bradley’s Crownfeathers and Effigies, Inside Higher Ed, 2014

‍ ‍Jan Seale’s The Parkinson Poems, Inside Higher Ed, 2014

‍ ‍Jessica Piazza’s Interrobang, Boxcar, 2014

‍ ‍Mary Meriam’s Irresistible Sonnets, Pleiades, 2014

‍ ‍Karen Skofield’s Frost in the Low Areas, Inside Higher Ed, 2014

‍ ‍Chris Carmona’s I Have Always Been Here, Inside Higher Ed, 2014

‍ ‍Pemberton Strong’s Tour of the Breath Gallery, Inside Higher Ed, 2013

‍ ‍David Bowles’s Flower Song Dance, Pleiades, 2013

‍ ‍Jennifer Foerester’s Leaving Tulsa, Boxcar, 2013

‍ ‍Laura Cesarco Eglin’s Tailor Shop, Rattle, 2013

‍ ‍Austin MacRae’s The Organ Builder, Boxcar 2012

‍ ‍Natalie Peeterse’s Black Birds: Blue Horse, Fifth Wednesday Journal, 2012

‍ ‍Stacy Gnall’s Heart First Into the Forest, Boxcar 2012

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AWARDS, HONORS, AND ACCOLADES

Summerlee Book Prize for Flare Stacks in Full Bloom (Texas Review Press, 2022), Center for History and Culture of Southeast Texas and the Upper Gulf Coast at Lamar University

‍ Julie Sophia Paegle Memorial Poetry Prize, Concrete Desert Review, California State University San Bernardino, 2022

‍ ‍Finalist, Eric Hofer Award for Poetry, Chapbooks, 2022

‍ ‍Poetry of the Plains and Prairies Award, University of North Dakota Press, 2021

‍ ‍Development Leave Grant, Lamar University, 2021-2022 Academic Year

‍ ‍Fellow, Center for History and Culture of Southeast Texas, 2020 (Carries a $5000 ‍research grant)

‍ ‍Interviewed for Poets and Writers national magazine, “COVID Vivid,” by Lupe ‍Mendez, June 2020

‍ ‍Editor’s Choice Award, Panoply Literary Journal, 2019

‍ ‍2nd Place in Poetry, Nature Writing of the Valley Exhibit, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, 2019

‍ ‍Inductee, Texas Institute of Letters (TIL), 2018. Other inductees this year included Willie

‍ Nelson (famed singer and songwriter), Christian Wiman (editor of Poetry Magazine), and Daniel Chacon (Chair of English Department at UT-EP).

‍ ‍Langdon Review Writer in Residence, Tarleton State University, 2017

‍ ‍Helen C. Smith Prize for the best book of poetry in Texas, Texas Institute of Letters (TIL), 2015. Selected by Norma Cantu.

‍ ‍Winner of the Editor's Prize, Mas Tequila Review, Issue 11, Fall 2015

‍ ‍Juried Workshop Participant and Scholarship Recipient, David Gioia’s Workshop, West Chester University, 2012.

‍ ‍Nuestra Voz Chapbook Prize for Among the Mariposas, Mouthfeel Press (2009)

‍ ‍Graduated cum laude, 2007

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PRESENTATIONS

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Conference Activity

‍ ‍Panelist, Poems of Infertility and Loss, CCTE, annual conference, Spring 2024 (Winner of the Best Poetry Award)

‍ ‍Panelist, Re-imagining Eden, Texas College English Association, annual conference, Spring 2024

‍ ‍Panelist, Writing the Body, AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) annual conference, Kansas City, Spring 2023

‍ ‍Panelist, “Poet as Editor: Anthologies,” AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) annual conference, Philadelphia, PA, Spring 2022

‍ ‍Panelist, “Borderland Mujeres: Collaboration as Feminist Empowerment,” CAA (College Art Association) annual conference, Los Angeles CA, Spring 2022

‍ Panelist, “Poetry Uncensored,” People’s Poetry Festival, Texas A&M Corpus Christi, Spring 2022

‍ ‍Poetry Corner, South Central MLA Association Annual Conference (SCMLA) October 2021 (Forthcoming—postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic)

‍ Invited Reader, Langdon Review Virtual Weekend, Tarleton State University, Fall 2021‍ ‍

Invited Reader, Langdon Review Weekend, Tarleton State University, Fall 2020

‍ ‍Panelist, Nature and Spirituality in Poetry, Texas A&M University Corpus-Christi, People’s Poetry Festival 2020

‍ Moderator/Panelist, Selected Poetry, Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, 2019

‍ ‍Panelist, Nature Writing in the Anthropocene, Gemini Ink, San Antonio 2019

‍ ‍Panelist, The Literary Landscape of Texas, Gemini Ink, San Antonio 2019

‍ ‍Panelist, Spirituality and Nature Poetry, People’s Poetry Festival, Texas A&M Corpus Christi, 2019

‍ ‍Featured Poet, Poetry Corner, South Central Modern Languages Association Annual Conference (SCMLA), October 2018

‍ ‍Panelist, Publishing Perspectives, Gemini Ink, San Antonio, Summer 2018

‍ ‍Panelist, A Mestizaje of Forms, Gemini Ink, San Antonio, Summer 2018

‍ ‍Panelist, Alternatives to the Contest Model, AWP (Association of Writing and Writing Programs), Tampa Bay, March 2018

‍ Panelist, Nature Poetry, People’s Poetry Festival, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, February 2018

‍ ‍Panelist, "Lost Chronicles of Slue Foot Sue and Revisionist Myth," Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, San Antonio, TX (September 2017)

‍ ‍Featured Presenter, "An Iliad of Bones," Langdon Review Writer in Residence

‍ ‍Presentation, Langdon Review Weekend, Tartleton State University, Granbury, Texas (September 2017).

‍ ‍Presenter, Scissortail Creative Writing Festival, East Central University, Ada,Oklahoma (April 2017).

‍ Panelist, "Writing the Body," People's Poetry Festival, Texas A&M Corpus Christi (February 2017).

‍ ‍Panelist, "Women of Texas Legend," Langdon Review Weekend, Tartleton State University, Granbury, Texas (September 2016)

‍ ‍Panelist, "The Community and Creative Writing Pedagogy," Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers Conference, San Antonio, Texas (September 2016)

‍ Panelist, "The Problem with Sentimentality" Gemini Ink Conference, San Antonio, Texas (July 2016)

‍ Panelist, "From Idea to Manuscript," Gemini Ink Conference, San Antonio, Texas (July 2016)

‍ ‍Panelist, "Goddesses in Cowboy Boots: Revisionist Myth in Western Literature," Angelo State University Kelton Writer's Conference, San Angelo, Texas (March 2016

‍ ‍Moderator, "Spotlight Reading Featuring Jan Seale: Texas Poet Laureate,"FESTIBA, Edinburg, Texas (March 2016)

‍ ‍Panelist, "MFA Alumni Book Presentations," FESTIBA, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, Texas (March 2016)

‍ Panelist, "Publishing Your Poetry – A discussion for graduate creative writing Students," FESTIBA, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, Texas (March 2016)

‍ Panelist, "Border Poetry," People's Poetry Festival, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, Texas (February, 2016)

‍ Panelist, "The Lost Chronicles of Slue Foot Sue," Langdon Poetry Weekend Granbury, Texas (September 2015)

‍ ‍Moderator, "Revisionist Mythmaking in the Borderlands," Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) National Conference, Minnepolis, MN, April 2015

‍ Panelist, "Goddess Wears Cowboy Boots," Langdon Poetry Weekend, Granbury, Texas (September 2014)

‍ ‍Panelist, "Feminist Fictions" Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, Fort Worth, September 2013.

‍ ‍"Writers Live Presents Katherine Hoerth," Featured Poet, University of Texas at Brownsville, September 2013.

Panelist, "(Re)Framing the Conversation: UTPA's MFA Program's Effect on the Literary Community," FESTIBA, University of Texas Pan American, Edinburg, TX, April 2013.

‍ ‍Event Organizer, "Putting Together Your Thesis: The Critical Introduction," Creative Writing Club at the University of Texas Pan American, September 2013.

‍ ‍Guest Lecturer and Featured Author, Writers Live Series, University of Texas at Brownsville, September 2013.

‍ ‍Workshop Leader, "Getting Your Work Out There!" Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival, April 2013.

‍ Workshop Leader, "Revisionist Mythmaking: Telling it Girly," We Need Words McAllen, February 2013.

‍ Panelist, "Surviving and Thriving the MFA Program," Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers annual conference, University of Texas Pan American, Edinburg, TX September 2012.

‍ ‍Panelist, "Uprooting the Garden: Musings on Femininity and Re-envisioning Verse," Festiba, University of Texas Pan American, Edinburg, TX, March 28 2012

‍ ‍Moderator, "Border Bodies: Womanhood in Verse," Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) National Conference, Chicago, IL, February 28th, 2012

‍ ‍Moderator, "Poetry as Activism", National Association of Chicano and Chicana Studies Regional Conference, South Texas College, McAllen, TX, February 25th, 2011

‍ Panelist, "Deconstructing Poetry and the Importance of Revisionist Mythmaking", EGADS! Graduate/Undergraduate Conference, The University of Texas Brownsville, Brownsville, TX , February 5th, 2011.

‍ "Mouthfeel Press Presents Katherine Hoerth" FESTIBA 2010 at University of Texas Pan American, Edinburg, TX, March 2010.

‍ Panelist, "Border Poetics: A Mouthfeel Press Presentation" El Mundo Zurdo ‍2010, University of Texas San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, November 5th 2010.

‍ Panelist, "A Guera's Poetic Perspective on Border Blending" Wild Tongues: Concepts of Untamed Scholarship, Teaching, Writing, and Beyond" 2010 Graduate Symposium, University of Texas San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, May 1, 2010.

‍ ‍Panelist, "Con La Pluma en Mano", FESTIBA 2010, University of Texas Pan American, Edinburg, TX, March 27,2010.

‍ Panelist, "Human Slavery", 2009 Confronting Global Sex Slavery in the 21stCentury, South Texas College, McAllen, TX, April 1, 2009.

‍ Panelist, "Using Comics to Challenge" Southwest Texas Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, February 2009.

Invited Readings and Talks

Featured Poet/Presenter, Austin Poetry Society, April 2026 ‍

Featured Poet, Pandora’s Prairie, Bookwoman, Austin, Texas, March 2026

Invited Speaker, Pandora’s Prairie, Cornerstone Press, University of Wisconsin Steven’s Point Fall 2025

Panelist, “Poets Writing the Body,” Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival, 2023

‍Featured Poet, Presenting Flare Stacks in Full Bloom, Texas Poetry Assignment, Hosted by Laurence Musgrove, September 2022

‍ ‍Guest Lecturer, “The Making of a Poem,” College of Saint Mary, Omaha, Nebraska, September 2022

‍ Invited Speaker, “Publishing a Poetry Book,” Poetry Society of Texas, Dallas, TX, Summer 2022

‍ Panelist, “Mouthfeel Press Showcase,” Valley International Poetry Festival (VIPF), McAllen, TX, Spring 2022

‍ Invited Reader, Cape Girardeau Public Library, April 2021

‍ ‍Invited Reader, Inaugural Poetry, Texas Poetry Assignment, Hosted by Laurence Musgrove, Spring 2021 (Virtual)

‍ ‍Invited Reader, Texas Poetry Calendar, Malvern Books, Fall 2020 (Virtual)

‍ ‍Featured Poet, Public Poetry, Houston Public Library, Spring 2020

‍ ‍Invited Reader, Poets in Performance reading series, By The Light of a Neon Moon Anthology Reading, Lone Star College, Fall 2019

‍ ‍Invited Reader, By the Light of a Neon Moon Anthology Reading, St. Thomas University, Fall 2019‍ ‍

Invited Reader, Poets for Migrant Justice, Houston Holocaust Museum, Fall 2019‍ ‍

Featured Poet, Public Poetry, Houston Public Library, Summer and Fall 2019.

‍ Juried Poet, Nature of the Valley Art Exhibit, University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley, Spring 2019

‍ ‍Featured Poet, Writers in Performance, Lone Star College, Spring 2019

‍ ‍Featured Poet, Public Poetry, Houston Public Library, Spring and Fall 2018.

‍ ‍Juried Poet, Houston Poetry Festival, October 2017

‍ ‍Invited Poet, House of Poetry, Baylor University March 2017.

‍ ‍Featured Presenter, Love and Chocolate, Dustin Sekula Library, Edinburg, TX February 2016

‍ Guest Lecturer, "Poetry and Feedback," University Writing Center workshop fortutors, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, October 2015.

‍ Featured Presenter, Author Talk Series, Dustin Sekula Library, Edinburg, TX. September 2015.

‍ ‍"Gulf Coast Poets Present Katherine Hoerth" Featured Poet, Barnes and Noble, Webster, Texas, July 2014.

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‍ TEACHING EXPERIENCE

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Associate Professor, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX, 2017-Present‍ ‍

African American Literature, ENG 2376

‍ ‍Literature of the Borderlands, ENG 5345 (Developed and taught)

‍ ‍Advanced Fiction Workshop, ENG 5343

‍ ‍Advanced Poetry Workshop, ENG 5344

‍ Poetic Analysis, ENG 3315

‍ ‍Advanced Internship in Editing, ENG 5365 (developed and taught)

‍ ‍Internship in Editing, ENG 4363 (developed and taught)

‍ ‍Literary Editing ENG 5327 (Developed and taught)

‍ ‍Editing the Literary Magazine ENG 4345 (Developed and taught)

‍ ‍Women’s Literature ENG 5325

‍ ‍Creative Writing Poetry ENG 3337

‍ ‍Honors English Composition I ENG 1301

‍ Sophomore American Literature ENG 2320

Lecturer I-II, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX, 2012-2017

‍Creative Writing ENG 3351

            Poetry Appreciation ENG 2301 (developed and taught) ‍

            Introduction to Literature ENG 2300

            English Composition II ENG 1302

            English Composition I ENG 130

            Basic Writing ENG 0301

‍ ‍Instructor, South Texas College, McAllen, TX, 2011-2012

‍ ‍ English Composition II ENG 1302

English Composition I ENG 1301

‍ ‍SERVICE

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Profession

President of Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, 2017-2019

Vice-President of Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, 2016-2017

‍ Judge, Poetry of the Plains and Prairies 2022, University of North Dakota Press

‍ Judge, Annual Poetry Award, Cameron University, 2022

‍ ‍Judge, Summerlee Book Prize/Creative category, Center for History and Culture of Southeast Texas and the Upper Gulf Coast at Lamar University, 2022

‍ ‍Judge, Helen C. Smith Memorial Award and Bob Bush Memorial Award for first book of poetry, Texas Institute of Letters, 2019

‍ ‍Judge, Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for Best Book of Poetry and Bob Bush Memorial Award for First Book of Poetry, Texas Institute of Letters, 2016.

‍ ‍Judge, REEL Poetry, Public Poetry at the Houston Public Library, 2021

‍ ‍Judging Committee, Able Muse Book Award, 2019

‍ ‍Poetry Editor, Devilfish Review, 2015-2018

‍ ‍Interviews Editor, RiverSedge, 2015-2017

‍ ‍Poetry Editor, Amarillo Bay, 2014-Present

‍Judging Committee, Write Prize and Able Muse Book Award Sponsored by Able Muse Press, 2012 and 2013.

‍ ‍Assistant Poetry Editor, Fifth Wednesday Journal, 2011-2014

‍ ‍Judge, "Green Living Festival Poetry Competition", Sponsored by the McAllen ‍Chamber of Commerce and Convention Center, McAllen, TX, October 2010.

Other Service

Business Manager, Lamar Journal of the Humanities Spring 2020-Present ‍

Editor-in-Chief, Lamar University Literary Press, 2017-Present‍ ‍

Advisory Board, Center for History and Culture of Southeast Texas, 2019-Present‍ ‍

Faculty Co-Advisor, Pulse Literary Journal, 2017-Present

Faculty Advisor, Creative Writing Club, UT-RGV, 2013-2017

Poetry Editor, Interstice, Student Literary Journal, 2012

LANGUAGES

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Spanish, intermediate proficiency in reading and translation

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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Texas Institute of Letters (TIL), Member

‍ Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), Member

‍ ‍College Art Association (CAA), Member

‍ ‍Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, Member, Past-President

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