Stacey Waite

Stacey Waite is a poet and an Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. . She focuses on both slam and written verse. Waite's poetry often explores themes of the body, typically intersections of gender, sexuality, place and relationships. She has published four collections of poetry over the past several years.

Career Waite attended her first live slam poetry performance in New York City as a teen.

Waite has also published a significant book, Teaching Queer: Radical Possibilities for Writing and Knowing, in the field of Composition Studies about pedagogy and the teaching of writing with the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2017, a project that aligns with Waite's role as a writing professor and her interest in the hows and whys of teaching writing and composition to first-year college students. In a recent review, poet and Prairie Schooner editor Kwame Dawes called Waite "a pathfinder," who in Butch Geography in particular charts "with disarming honesty, humor, pathos, and willful perplexity the uncertain terrain of gender in ways that shatter assumptions, unsettle easy presumptions, and yet, through the sheer grace of craft ... open us to the beauty of our strange human enterprise."

Publications

Poetry Choke - winner of the 2004 Frank O'Hara prize Love Poem to Androgyny - chapbook, winner of the 2006 Main Street Rag Competition the lake has no saint - winner of the 2008 Snowbound Prize from Tupelo Press Butch Geography - published in 2013 by Tupelo Press Aunt Liz Whittles A Wooden Dollhouse