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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, visual artist, and educator. She teaches courses in composition at Texas State University, where she emphasizes writing as both a critical and creative practice. Her poetry and interdisciplinary work appear 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.

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/
View all scholarly/creative works
  • Award / Honor Nominee: Semi-Finalist: Bennett Nieberg Transpoetic Broadside Prize, Gasher Press. September 2025
  • Award / Honor Nominee: Pushcart Prize, Many Nice Donkeys. November 2024
  • Award / Honor Nominee: Pushcart Prize, The Hopper. November 2024
  • Award / Honor Nominee: Best of the Net: Nonfiction, So to Speak. September 2024
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Fulbright Teaching Scholarship in Latvia, U.S. Department of State. September 2019 - March 2020
  1. Volunteer

    The Table Review

  2. Other

    Creative Writers Circle

  3. Chair

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