Michelle Naka Pierce, Associate Professor
BA, University of New Mexico
MA, University of New Mexico, with distinction
MFA, Naropa University
Michelle Naka Pierce is a poet and specialist in writing pedagogy. Her latest book is Beloved Integer (PUB LUSH/Bootstrap). She is also the author of 48 Minutes Left (belladonna* books) and co-author of Tri/ Via (Erudite Fangs/PUB LUSH) with Veronica Corpuz. She has taught at Sakuragaoka koko in Yokohama, the University of New Mexico, and the Workshop for Language and Thinking at Bard College. She is the former director of the Naropa Writing Center and co-developed the curriculum in the Core writing seminars. Courses she’s taught for the Department of Writing and Poetics include Hybrid Forms, Poetic Operation, Experimental Women Writers, Collaborative Poetics, and Currency of the New Millennium. Her interviews and creative work have appeared in Teachers and Writers Magazine, Rain Taxi, Traverse, Aufgabe, Interlope, and Shiny.
