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Professor Kale Hensley

  • Asst Professor of Instruction - English
Portrait of Professor Kale Hensley

Biography and education

Kale Hensley is a poet and visual artist from West Virginia. Her writing appears in Gulf Coast, Evergreen Review, BOOTH, and Epiphany, among other journals, and have been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She currently serves on the staff at The Table Review and edits for Pictura Journal.

Education:
BA West Virginia University, English & Religious Studies
MFA Texas State University, Poetry

Research Interests

  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, June). The Gentle Art of Leeching. Gulf Coast. Retrieved from https://gulfcoastmag.org/stories/372-summerfall-2025,4803
  • Hensley, K. L. (2025, January). The Works of Flesh Are Manifest. BOOTH. Retrieved from https://booth.butler.edu/2025/01/03/the-works-of-flesh-are-manifest/
  • Hensley, K. L. (2024, December). Creation Myth: Phyllis Rides Aristotle. Evergreen Review. Retrieved from https://evergreenreview.com/read/the-rest-cure-for-common-whores/
  • Hensley, K. L. (2024, July). A Bed Built on Wheels. So to Speak: A Journal of Feminist Art and Language. Retrieved from https://www.sotospeakjournal.org/kale-hensley-a-bed-built
  • Hensley, K. L. (2024, April). When the Last Trumpet Sounds, I Will Be in the Mummy Room at the Museum. Gulf Stream. Retrieved from https://gulfstreamlitmag.com/2024/04/16/when-the-last-trumpet-sounds-i-will-be-in-the-mummy-room-at-the-museum/
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  • Award / Honor Nominee: Semi-Finalist: Bennett Nieberg Transpoetic Broadside Prize, Gasher Press. September 2025
  • Award / Honor Nominee: Best of the Net: Poetry, The Hopper. 2025
  • Award / Honor Nominee: Best of the Net: Art, The Core Review. 2025
  • Award / Honor Nominee: Best of the Net: Poetry, New Delta Review. 2025
  • Award / Honor Nominee: Pushcart Prize, Many Nice Donkeys. November 2024
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  1. Other

    Pictura Journal

  2. Other

    The Table Review

  3. Other

    Creative Writers Circle

  4. Chair

    "Writing the Self: Fiction, Memoir, and Autoethnography," Honors College Undergraduate Research Conference