FACULTY

Assistant Professor. B.A., History; M.F.A. Creative Writing, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; PhD, Poetics, SUNY Buffalo.

Professor Steensen teaches poetry workshops and literature courses.  She is the author of A Magic Book, which won the Alberta duPont Bonsal Prize (Fence Books, 2004) and correspondence (with Gordon Hadfield, Handwritten Press, 2004).  Her work has appeared in numerous journals, including The Colorado Review, Interim, P-queue, Ecopoetics, Enough, GAM, Slope, and Chain. She is currently working on a new book of poems, The Method, which takes its title from a collection of proofs by the Greek mathematician, Archimedes.  The Method charts the various exploits of Archimedes’s manuscript, from Constantinople to Jerusalem to Paris to Baltimore.  Steensen is also an editor, and she co-edited the journal Kiosk: A Journal of Poetry, Poetics, and Experimental Prose for four years.  With the help of the University and the Center for Literary Publishing, she recently established a small press and bookmaking center that will be housed on the CSU campus.