People

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• Graduate Student
• At Rutgers Since: 2026
• Primary Areas of Specialization: Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Poetry & Poetics, Creative Writing Studies, Book and Media History, Affect Theory, Critical Archival Theory, Memory Studies
• Field of Interest: Book and Media History, Creative Writing Studies, Gender & Sexuality, Poetry & Poetics, Twentieth Century, Twenty-first Century
• Undergraduate Courses Taught:

  Beginning Creative Writing, Colorado State University

• Awards:

  Sewanee Review Poetry Contest, Finalist (2025)

  Academy of American Poets College Prize, Winner (2020)

  Programs of Research and Scholarly Excellence Fellow, Center for Literary Publishing (2019-2020)

   

• Other Publications:

  Poetry:

  Muzzle Magazine, "of your hour shame digs another hole" 

  Iowa Review, "What Dark Found, What Clatter" & "Little Disobeys"

  Puerto del Sol, "[what lives under]"

  Laurel Review, "Driftwood as Eros" & "There Is No Translationg for the Body at Night"

  RHINO Poetry, "In the Acred Woods"

  Pleiades, "Have You Heard That Birds Memorize Their Parents' Songs in Sleep?"

  Academy of American Poets, "My Family Left the House in the Woods"

  Salt Hill Journal, "Call in the Voice of Nana" & "Spring Freeze; Or, I Was Told the Rabbit Ran Away"

  Ruminate Magazine, "Vampire on Dance Floor"

  Pretty Owl Poetry, "Translating Red"

  New Delta Review, "Sappho as Necklace"

  Pittsburgh Poetry Review, "Grenoble"

  Rogue Agent, "How This Lives in My Body"

   

• Membership Affiliations:

  Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)

  Society of American Archivists (SAA)

   

• Education: Colorado State University, MFA, Poetry (2018-2021); Simmons University, MLIS, Archives Management (2024-2026); Chatham University, BFA, Creative Writing (2013-2017)

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• GRADUATE STUDENT
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• Primary Areas of Specialization: 20th-Century African American Literature, Black Feminism, & Sound Studies
• Field of Interest: African-American & Diaspora, Creative Writing Studies, Sound Studies, Twentieth Century
• About:

  Jashari Samuel is a Houston, Texas native and a graduate of the University of Houston, where she earned her B.A. in English with a concentration in Creative Writing. Her research interests include Africana diasporic literature, particularly the intersections of sound, visual culture, and literary form.