About
DR. KRISTI MAXWELL (Director of Creative Writing) is the author of nine books of poetry: Wide Ass of Night (Saturnalia Books, 2025), Goners (Green Linden Press, 2023), My My (Saturnalia, 2020), Bright and Hurtless (Ahsahta Press, 2018), Realm Sixty-four (Ahsahta, 2008), Hush Sessions (Saturnalia Books, 2009), Re- (Ahsahta, 2011), That Our Eyes Be Rigged (Saturnalia, 2014), and PLAN/K (Horse Less Press, 2015).
Prof. Maxwell's scholarly publications include articles on experimental writing practices and the hybrid writing of Jenny Boully and Anne Carson, and her research interests involve theories of representation and difference, textual performance, and the body.
In 2022, she received the Presidential Excellence Distinguished Faculty Award in Scholarship, Research, and Creative Activity (Creative and Performing Arts) and the College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Faculty Award in Scholarship, Research, and Creative Activity (Creative and Performing Arts).
A former Elliston Poetry Fellow, she received a PhD in Creative Writing & Literature, along with a graduate certificate in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona, where she served as editor-in-chief of Sonora Review.