Faculty Profile for Dr. Cecily Gordon Parks

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Dr. Cecily Gordon Parks
Associate Professor — English
phone: (512) 245-8231
Scholarly/Creative Work
Awards
Grants
Service

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Parks, C. G. (n.d.). The Seeds. Alice James Books. Retrieved from https://www.alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/the-seeds
  • Parks, C. G. (2025). “Girlhood.” In Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology. Trinity University Press.
  • Parks, C. G. (2025). “Amistad Gambusia.” The Nation.
  • Parks, C. G. (2022, July). “Clipping.” The Yale Review. Retrieved from https://yalereview.org/article/cecily-parks-clipping
  • Parks, C. G. (2020). “The Seeds.” In Best American Poetry 2020. New York, NY: Scribner.

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Sigma Tau Delta Professor of the Year, Sigma Tau Delta. April 2020
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Foundations of Excellence Award, Student Foundation. October 17, 2018
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Alpha Chi Favorite Professor. May 2018
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Presidential Distinction Award for Scholarly/Creative Activity, Texas State University. 2016 - 2017
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Sigma Tau Delta Outstanding English Professor of the Year, Sigma Tau Delta, Texas State University. 2016 - 2017

Selected Grants

  • Parks, Cecily Gordon (Principal). One-Time Diversity Funding Grant, Office of Equity and Access, Texas State University, $1000. (Funded: October 27, 2016). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Board Member
Columbia Alumni Association
December 2024-Present
University Mentor
Mentorship Committee
August 2024-Present
Undergraduate Advisor
Wordplay Poetry Club
August 2024-Present
Board Member
Austin Bat Cave
2023-Present
Co-Chair
Search Committee, Katherine Anne Porter House Writer-in-Residence
2023-Present