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Valerie Hsiung
Core Assistant Professor; Chair, Creative Writing Programs
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 / MFA Experimental Prose / MFA Somatic Writing / MFA Cross Genre / UG Seminar: Diaspora, Migration, Borderlands / UG Workshop: Innovative Poetry / MFA Creative Thesis
Valerie Hsiung writes between worlds, where language meets ritual and abolition meets afterlife. Her books dissolve the borders of poetry, prose, and philosophy into a single listening body, drawing on diasporic, ecological, and metaphysical inquiry. She is the author of eight full-length books, including The pedestrian (Nightboat Books, forthcoming), The Naif (Ugly Duckling Presse), The only name we can call it now is not its only name (Counterpath), To love an artist (Essay Press), and outside voices, please (CSU). Her writing has appeared in Annulet, BathHouse Journal, The Georgia Review, mercury firs, The Nation, Paperbag, Verse and her work has been presented internationally at Double Change (Paris), Hyle (Athens), and the Jaipur Literature Festival. Recipient of support from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, PEN America, and Lighthouse Works, she teaches writing at the limits of language at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University.
