Stevie Edwards, PhD, MFA
Assistant Professor
They/She
Contact
Department of English
Office: 312 Strode
Website: www.stevieedwardspoet.com
Email: sedwar7@clemson.edu
Education
PhD: Creative Writing – Poetry, University of North Texas (2020); MFA: Creative Writing – Poetry, Cornell University (2013); BA: English with Creative Writing Emphasis, Albion College (2009)
Courses
ENGL 2020: Literary Forms and Creative Writing; ENGL 2150: Literature in 20th- and 21st-Century Contexts; and ENGL 3460: Introduction to Creative Writing -- Poetry
Research Interests
Poetry, Creative Writing, Contemporary Literature, Women's Literature
Dr. Stevie Edwards is an Assistant Professor at Clemson University and Poetry Editor of The South Carolina Review. Stevie’s poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. They are the author of Quiet Armor (Northwestern University Press, 2023), Sadness Workshop (Button Poetry, 2018), Humanly (Small Doggies Press, 2015), and Good Grief (Write Bloody Publishing, 2012). They hold a PhD from the University of North Texas and an MFA from Cornell University. Originally a Michigander, they now live in South Carolina with their spouse and a small herd of rescue pitbulls.
Professional/Research Links
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/stevie-edwards
Selected Professional Works
Books (Published)
Quiet Armor
Sadness Workshop, Button Poetry (contest winner)
Humanly, Small Doggies Press
Good Grief, Write Bloody Publishing
Journal Articles & Book Chapters (Published)
Writer’s Chronicle: “A Room without Men: Toward Outlining a Feminist Poetics”
Poetry (Published)
Palette Poetry: “Gender Reveal Ceremony”
The Queens Review: “Performing Gender” and “Mrs. F----”
Diode Poetry Journal: “Alcoholism” and “Self-Portrait as Chrysalis”
Four Way Review: "Once I Was a Plague of Locusts"
The Massachusetts Review: “On Crying While Stripping Wallpaper”
The Southern Review: “Father’s Day”
Thrush Poetry Journal: “Ode to Effexor”
Blue Mountain Review: “Yes Ma’am”
DIALOGIST: “Portrait of My Mother, Age 56”
Birdfeast: “All the Heavens Were a Bell”
The Southeast Review: “Some Lines for the Looming Apocalypse”
DIAGRAM: “Mouthy”
The Account: “How to Make Beef Stew”
StorySouth Review: “On Mania”
Twelve Mile Review: “Good Housekeeping” and “Ode to a Three-Bedroom House”
“Dread Myth” in Bennington Review
Poetry: "Parthenogenesis"
The Moth, "Ode to Crab Rangoon"
Columbia Review: “Tapping Therapy” (Volume 10: Issue No. 2)
The Journal: “Another Poem About Pain” (Issue 43.1)
Crazyhorse: “Essay on Guns”
West Branch: “A Few More Lines on Lavinia”
Gulf Coast (Online Issue): “Drunk Bitch Dreams of a Luminous Stream” (https://gulfcoastmag.org/online/winter/spring-2018/drunk-bitch-dreams-of-a-luminous-stream/)
Pleiades: “Dream of Crossing” (Issue 38.1)
Ninth Letter: “Everything is Going Okay for Once” (Volume 14, No. 2)
Redivider: “Spell for Undoing a Life Sentence” (Issue 14.2)
TriQuarterly: “Some Things We Carried” (Issue 152)
TriQuarterly: “Mom’s Asked to Consider that the Supreme Court Ruling Against Giving Life without Parole as a Sentence for Minors Might Free Her Brother after 40-Years of Incarceration” (Issue 152)
32 Poems: “Fidelity” (Volume 15, Number 1)
32 Poems: “What Is Left to Say About the Body” (Volume 15, Number 1)
Women’s Studies Quarterly: “Sentry” (Volume 45, Numbers 1-2)
Booth: “After Party” (https://booth.butler.edu/2017/01/)
Booth: “Calling Her Names” (https://booth.butler.edu/2017/01/)
The Journal: “The Rapists Seem Hurt by Being Called Their Names in Public” (Issue 39.3)
Rattle: “After the Vigil for the Charleston Church Massacre.” (http://www.rattle.com/after-the-vigil-for-the-charleston-church-massacre-by-stevie-edwards/)
Indiana Review: “Nobody Is Lost” (Volume 35, Issue 1)
Southern Indiana Review: “Gorge”
Rattle: “What I Mean By Ruin Is…” (Issue 35, http://www.rattle.com/what-i-mean-by-ruin-is-by-stevie-edwards/)
Crab Orchard Review: “Easy as Pie” (Volume 24: Issue No. 2, December 2019). https://issuu.com/craborchardreview/docs/book_24_2c2__1_
American Poetry Review: “Narrative” (Volume 49: Issue No. 1, January 2020). Print.
Missouri Review: “Window Shopping” (November 2019). https://www.missourireview.com/stevie-edwards-window-shopping/
Reviews & Interviews
“Editor’s Corner: An Interview with Elaina Ellis of Copper Canyon”, American Literature Review
Review of blud by Rachel McKibbens, Anomaly (formerly Drunken Boat)
“Editor’s Corner: An Interview with Jenny Molberg of Pleaides”, American Literature Review
“Regarding, Or Disregarding, the Non-Human World: An Interview with Melissa Kwasny”, American Literature Review
Review of play dead. by francine j. harris, Anomaly (formerly Drunken Boat)
Review of My Dinner with Ron Jeremy by Kendra DeColo, Anomaly (formerly Drunken Boat)
Poet Activist Spotlight: Mahogany L. Browne, Ploughshares Blog
Poet Activist Spotlight: Lynn Melnick, Ploughshares Blog
Poet Activist Spotlight: Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Ploughshares Blog
Poet Activist Spotlight: Franny Choi, Ploughshares Blog
Poet Activist Spotlight: Rachel McKibbens, Ploughshares Blog
Poet Activist Spotlight: Jacqui Germain, Ploughshares Blog
