Jacqueline Lyons
Clinical Assistant Professor
Biography
Jacqueline Lyons earned her PhD in English from the University of Utah and her MFA in Creative Writing from Colorado State University. She has taught creative writing in all genres, American literature, and World literature. She served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Lesotho, Southern Africa, which prompted a love of African literature and postcolonial studies. She has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in poetry, a Nevada Arts Council Fellowship in creative nonfiction, the Peace Corps Writers Award for Best Poetry Book, and the Indiana Review Poetry Prize.
Publications
Books:
The Way They Yes Here, (poetry) Hanging Loose Press, 2004
Anthologies:
Oh One Arrow, Ed. Golaski and Klane, Flim Forum Press, 2007
Voices of the City, Eds. King, Russell, Carter and Hershon, Hanging Loose Press, 2004
Poems and Essays:
More than fifty poems, essays and reviews have appeared in journals such as AGNI, Barrow Street, Bellingham Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Florida Review, Grain, Interim, Pleiades, Puerto del Sol, Quarter After Eight, Sonora Review, and others.
Teaching Interests
Teaching interests include poetry, creative nonfiction, mythology, African literature, diversity in American literature, literature by women, and postcolonial literature and theory.
Contact
- Avery Hall 319
- 335-7496
- jacqueline_lyons@wsu.edu
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