Alexandra Teague is the author of three books of poetry: Or What We’ll Call Desire (Persea, 2019), The Wise and Foolish Builders (Persea, 2015), and Mortal Geography (Persea, 2010), winner of the 2009 Lexi Rudnitsky Prize and 2010 California Book Award. She is also the author of the novel The Principles Behind Flotation (Skyhorse, 2017) and co-editor of the anthology Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence (Beacon, 2017). The recipient of a 2019 Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship, the 2014 Missouri Review Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize, a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a 2006-2008 Stegner Fellowship at Stanford, Alexandra is an Associate Professor in the BA in English and MFA in Creative Writing programs, as well as faculty advisor for Fugue and an editor for Broadsided Press. Her work has been praised in such publications as Booklist, The Huffington Post, and The New York Times as “a strong feminist penman to watch,” “formally impressive,” and “passionate, quirky, and righteously outraged.” She is currently working on a collection of personal essays and her fourth poetry manuscript.

• Poetry Writing
• Prosody
• Modern and Contemporary Poetry
• Craft of Poetry
• Revision Strategies
• Women and Poetry

Books

• Or What We’ll Call Desire, Persea Books, 2019
• The Principles Behind Flotation, (novel) Skyhorse, 2017
• Bullets into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence in the U.S. (co-edited anthology with Brian Clements and Dean Rader) Beacon, 2017
• The Wise and Foolish Builders, (poetry) Persea Books, 2015
• Mortal Geography, (poetry) Persea Books, 2010

Anthologized Poems (selected)

• Dear America, “’My Country, Tis of Thee’ (arranged for Brazen Bull),” 2020
• The Inspired Poet, “Coyotes,” 2019
• The Eloquent Poem, “Studio with Blackened Windows,” 2019
• Dead and Undead Poems: Zombies, Ghosts, Vampires, and Devils, “Sarah Winchester, 23 Years Dead, Watches House of Dracula,” 2014
• 99 Poems for the 99 Percent, “Port of Oakland,” 2014
• New California Writing, “The House That Doesn’t Grow,” 2013
• The Best American Poetry (eds. Wagoner & Lehman), “Heartlines,” 2009
  
   

Journals (selected recent)

• Puerto del Sol, “The Rough Beast Literally Arrives,” “Cambium,” “The Goth Comes Clean About Decay,” 2020
• The Arkansas International, “Adult Coloring Book: Utopia,” “In the Glass Labyrinth at the Nelson Atkins Art Museum, The Rough Beast Is Mistaken for the Minotaur,” 2019
• Terrain, “’My Country, ‘Tis of Thee’ (arranged for Brazen Bull),” 2019
• Zyzzyva, “The Rough Beast Takes a Painting Class,” 2019
• The Gettysburg Review, “America The Beautiful: Thriftstore,” “Sad Clown Paintings,” 2018

• Feminist Poetics
• Researched Poetry
• Genre-Crossing / Hybrid Writing

• Idaho Center for the Book, Advisory Board, 2016-present
• Vandal Poem of the Day, 2015-present 
• Founding Member of the BASK Collective, 2013-present
• Senior Editor, Broadsided Press, 2009-present 
• Member of Moscow Arts Commission, Winter 2012-Winter 2016

• Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, 2019
• University Graduate Mentoring Award, University of Idaho, 2017
• Idaho Humanities Council grant, Vandal Poem of the Day project, 2015 (with Devin Becker)
• The Missouri Review Editors’ Prize, 2014
• University of Idaho Kurt Olsson Early Career Fellowship, 2014
• University of Idaho Student Fine Art Fee Grant, BASK Interdisciplinary Arts Collective “Play Like a Girl” project, 2013 (with Kristin Elgersma, Stacy Isenbarger, and Belle Baggs)
• University of Idaho Seed Grant, research for The Wise and Foolish Builders, 2012
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry, 2011
• California Book Award, Gold Medal for Poetry, 2010
• Lexi Rudnitsky Prize in Poetry, Persea Books, 2009 
• Stegner Fellowship in Poetry, Stanford University, 2006 to 2008
• University Graduate Teaching Award, University of Florida, 1998