Supporting Faculty Bio

Aza Pace

Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of English

Education

• B.A., English, University of Texas at Austin
• M.F.A., Poetry, University of Houston
• Ph.D., Literature and Creative Writing (Poetry), University of North Texas

About

Aza Pace specializes in eco-poetry and creative rewritings of myth and folklore. Her creative work seeks out a feminist poetics of place and explores what we illuminate in the circle of our care. Her debut poetry collection, Her Terrible Splendor, was selected for the 2024 Emma Howell Rising Poet Prize and will be published by Willow Springs Books. Her poems appear in The Southern Review, Copper Nickel, Tupelo Quarterly, Crazyhorse, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere.