Communications

Assistant Professor

College of Arts & Humanities - English

Bio

Nancy K. Pearson received her graduate degrees in Creative Nonfiction and Poetry from the University of Houston and George Mason University, respectively. Her research focuses on queer poetics; ecopoetry; and poetry workshop pedagogy. She is the author of the books, Two Minutes of Light (Perugia Press)— which won the PEN New England Award and Lambda Literary Award— and The Whole By Contemplation of a Single Bone (Fordham University Press), which received the Poets Out Loud Prize. She has been published in journals such as Five Points, Oxford American, Gulf Coast Magazine, Crab Orchard, Mississippi Review, Alaska Review, Iowa Review, Provincetown Arts Magazine and anthologies such as Show Us Your Papers; Ghost Fishing: An Ecopoetry Anthology; Method and Mystery; Miracle Monocle: Queer, Rural and American; and Ordinary Genius, A Guide for The Poet Within.

Expertise

Poetry

Education

• MFA, George Mason University
• MFA, University of Houston