Featured grants
- Parks, Cecily Gordon (Principal). One-Time Diversity Funding Grant, Office of Equity and Access, Texas State University, $1000. (Funded: October 27, 2016). Grant.
Featured scholarly/creative works
- 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.
Featured 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
Featured service activities
- Board Member
Columbia Alumni Association
- University Mentor
Mentorship Committee
- Undergraduate Advisor
Wordplay Poetry Club
- Board Member
Austin Bat Cave
- Co-Chair
Search Committee, Katherine Anne Porter House Writer-in-Residence
- Chair
Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center & Reading Series