Portrait of Professor Kale Hensley

Professor Kale Hensley

  • Asst Professor of Instruction at English, College of Liberal Arts

Biography

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

poetry and poetics, Christian mysticism, visual culture, hybrid forms and genre, lyric essay, medieval and classical literature, eco-criticism, embodiment studies, collage and text-image practice, composition pedagogy