Alexandra Teague
College of Letters, Arts & Social Sciences
Department of English
Assistant Professor
With UI Since 2011
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MFA in Poetry, University of Florida, 1998
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BA in English, Southwest Missouri State University, 1996
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Poetry Writing
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Prosody
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Modern and Contemporary Poetry
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Craft of Poetry
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Revision Strategies
Alexandra Teague’s first book of poetry, Mortal Geography, won Persea Books’ 2009 Lexi Rudnitsky Prize and the 2010 California Book Award. Her work has also appeared in Best American Poetry 2009, Best New Poets 2008, and many journals. She was a 2006-08 Stegner Fellow and the recipient of a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She has taught at University of Miami, City College of San Francisco, and Stanford, and spent Fall 2010 as Visiting Professor of Poetry in the BA/MFA programs at University of Arkansas (near her old hometown of Eureka Springs). She is currently working on a manuscript of poems revolving around the story of Sarah Winchester.
Books - Mortal Geography, Poems, Persea Books, 2010
Anthologies - Best American Poetry 2009, “Heartlines”
- Best New Poets 2008, “Adjectives of Order”
- Poetry Daily Essentials, 2007, “House Guest”
Journals - ZYZZYVA, "Sarah Winchester, 24 Years Dead, Talks to Andy Warhol," and "L.C. Smith, Makers of Fine Guns and Typewriters, Advertise," Forthcoming
- The Southern Review, "Ghost Tours: Houdini," Forthcoming
- 32 Poems, "Winchester .351 Self-Loading Rifle" and "The Thirteen Club," Forthcoming
- Blackbird, "Winchester," "Clue," and Sarah Winchester Explains: House Raising," Forthcoming
- Gulf Coast, "Whole Cloth," Forthcoming
- Willow Springs, "Reclusion," Spring 2012
- Prairie Schooner, "Thirteen" and "B. Tyler Henry," Spring 2012
- The Cortland Review, "Ghost Tours: Diamond Bessie," Spring 2012
- The Seattle Review, "Winchester Series," December/January 2011-12
- Slate, "Cartier," October 2011
- FIELD, "The Barbed Wire Bible" and "Survivor's Guilt," Fall 2011
- The Missouri Review online, “Career Day,” Summer 2011
- Crazyhorse, “Perpetual Motion” and “Notes Before Moving,” Summer 2011
- Subtropics, “Widowed,” Winter/Spring 2011
- Southern Poetry Review, “The Visible Woman” and “Port of Oakland,” Spring 2011
- Mid-American Review, “Ruby’s Daughter Tells Most of It” and “Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Poem,” Spring 2010
- The Iowa Review, “Two Drafts Written After a Fight” and “Present Perfect,” Fall 2009
- The Missouri Review, “Kansas City,” “The Heartland,” “Bay Window, with Divorce and Pigeon,” “Four Games Played While Riding the Bus,” and “Frames,” Spring 2009
- Third Coast, “Language Lessons,” Fall 2008
- New England Review, “Threads” and “Heartlines,” Spring 2008
- Slate, “Adjectives of Order,” Summer 2007
- The Paris Review, “Cave Tours,” Spring 2004
- The Threepenny Review, “The Idea of North,” Spring 2004
- New England Review, “Cork,” Spring 2004
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 2011
- California Book Award, Gold Medal in Poetry, for Mortal Geography, 2010
- Persea Books’ Lexi Rudnitsky Prize in Poetry, for Mortal Geography, 2009
- Stegner Fellowship in Poetry, Stanford University, 2006 to 2008
- AWP Intro Award in Poetry, 1996
