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Martha Serpas is the guest editor for our newly published poetry anthology Improbable Worlds, an anthology of Texas and Louisiana Poets. The theme of the anthology is “Given our noisy marketplace of beliefs, how or where can the sacred be found?” Martha Serpas has published two collections of poetry, Côte Blanche (New Issues, 2002) and The Dirty Side of the Storm (Norton, 2007), and her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Nation, and Southwest Review, and in anthologies such as Bearing the Mystery: Twenty Years of Image, The Art of the Sonnet, and the Library of America’s American Religious Poems. In 2007 “The Dirty Side of the Storm” was featured in “Re:Print Ten Poems from Ten Remarkable Recent Books” in American Poet: The Journal of the Academy of American Poets. She received degrees in creative writing from Louisiana State, New York University, and the University of Houston. She also holds a Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School. During her time as a student in Houston, she worked with children and writing at Project Row Houses, an independent arts center in Houston’s Third Ward, and in the public schools. After receiving her PHD in 1998, she lectured in the Honors College at the University of Houston. She taught at the University of Tampa for ten years and as a visitor at Yale Divinity School while reading and lecturing at Duke University, Boston University, and Seattle Pacific University’s Glen Workshop (Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion). A native of Bayou Lafourche in south Louisiana, she is involved in efforts to restore Louisiana’s wetlands. She teaches creative writing at the University of Houston and is a hospital trauma chaplain. More information on Martha Serpas: New York Times Op/Ed “Our Life, Between Sea and Oil” Selected Poems by Martha Serpas |