Portrait of Professor Kale Hensley

Professor Kale Hensley

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

Biography

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

mystical and visionary writing, ecopoetics, post-confessional and neo-confessional poetry, hybrid and collage-based aesthetics, Southern and Appalachian literary traditions.