Valerie Hsiung

Core Candidate Assistant Professor
Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
ACADEMIC PROGRAMS:
BA Creative Writing & Literature, MFA Creative Writing (Low-Residency,) MFA Creative Writing & Poetics
COURSES TAUGHT:
MFA Writers in Community / MFA Women Writers/Open Texts / Critical Thesis / MFA Multigenre Workshop: Text/Image / UG Workshop: Narrative Forms

Valerie Hsiung is a poet, interdisciplinary artist, and the author of several poetry and hybrid writing collections, including The only name we can call it now is not its only name (Counterpath, forthcoming 2023), To love an artist (Essay Press, 2022), selected by Renee Gladman for the 2021 Essay Press Book Prize, outside voices, please (CSU), selected for the 2019 CSU Open Book Prize, Name Date of Birth Emergency Contact (The Gleaners), YOU & ME FOREVER (Action Books), and e f g (Action Books). Her writing has appeared in print (The Believer, Chicago Review, The Nation, New Delta Review, Black Sun Lit), in flesh (Treefort Music Festival, Common Area Maintenance, The Poetry Project), in sound waves (Montez Press Radio, Hyle Greece), and other forms of particulate matter. Her work has been supported by Foundation for Contemporary Arts, PEN America, Lighthouse Works, and public streets and trails she has walked on and hummed along for years. Born in the Year of the Earth Snake and raised by Chinese-Taiwanese immigrants in Cincinnati, Ohio, she now lives in the mountains of Colorado where she teaches as Assistant Professor of Creative Writing & Poetics at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa.

PUBLICATIONS:

Full-length books (poetry, performance, essay, hybrid)

  • e f g (Action Books, 2016)
  • YOU & ME FOREVER (Action Books, 2020)
  • Name Date of Birth Emergency Contact (The Gleaners, 2020)
  • outside voices, please (CSU, 2021)
  • To love an artist (Essay Press, 2022)
  • The only name we can call it now is not its only name (Counterpath, 2023)

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