Faculty Profile for Professor Kale Hensley

Biography Section

Biography and Education

Kale Hensley is a poet, visual artist, and educator whose work explores the intersections of queerness, spirituality, and hybrid literary forms. 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. She is currently at work on a novel loosely inspired by the life of St. Brigid of Kildare.

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

Research Interests

Feminist poetics, queer theory and queer poetics, mystical and visionary writing, ecopoetics, post-confessional and neo-confessional poetry, hybrid and collage-based aesthetics, Southern and Appalachian literary traditions, ars poetica as political gesture.