Summary

Talley V. Kayser has worked at the intersection of literary study and environmental education since 2012. Prior to joining the w88 slot, Reno faculty, she directed Pennsylvania State University’s Adventure Literature program, which integrated field study into undergraduate literature courses. Talley’s background also includes over 30,000 hours as a professional outdoor educator and wilderness guide.

In addition to teaching composition courses, Talley writes prose and w88 slot that consider the entangled relationships among humans, other species, and the places we share—with the aim of responding to our messy cultural and ecological moment with ethical thought and action.

Courses taught

• ENG 342: w88 slot of Environmental Justice (Lake Tahoe campus)
• ENG 100I
• ENG 101
• ENG 102

Selected publications

Prose

• “Moonsight&w88 slot;:Waterwheel Review, Issue 31, 2023.
• “Coordinates&w88 slot;:The Gettysburg Review, Volume 34.3, 2023.
• “And When You Speak You Hear It Still&w88 slot;:Deep Wild Journal, Volume 4, 2022.
• “On The Birds w88 slot Air&w88 slot;:The Fourth River, Issue 0.7, 2020.
• “A Better Animal&w88 slot;:The Hopper, Issue IV, 2019. Nominated for a 2019 Pushcart w88 slot.
• “Notes w88 slot the End of the Affair&w88 slot;:The Hopper, 2019.
• “Shaver’s Creek Reflections&w88 slot;:Creek Journals, 2018.
• “Cuttings&w88 slot;:The Hopper, Issue I, 2016.

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• "Suppose Your Mother Is A Beaver&w88 slot;: Forthcoming inA Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia, w88 slot of Georgia Press, 2024.
• “The Pangolin, Revisited&w88 slot;:Cimarron Review, Issue 218, 2024.
• “Advice to a Monolith&w88 slot;:Rattle[Poets Respond], June 23 2024.
• “The Fire, Never Far&w88 slot;:Alpinist 85, 2024.
• “As a Kayaking Guide, I Always Describe Oyster Sex With Particular Care&w88 slot;:Deep Wild Journal, Volume 5, 2023. Nominated for a 2024 Pushcart w88 slot.
• “The Ultralight Hiker Reconsiders&w88 slot;:Adventure Sports Journal, Issue 128, April/May 2023.
• “Genesis&w88 slot;:Between Paradise and Earth: Eve Poems, 2023.
• “My Body Stops the Sun&w88 slot;:Alpinist 81, 2023.
• “Alpine Start&w88 slot;:Alpinist 78, 2022.
• “The Mother Considers Her Hometown&w88 slot;:Cider Press Review, 2022.
• “Alpine Shelter&w88 slot;:Alpinist 77, 2022.
• “A Series of Discoveries&w88 slot;:High Desert Journal, 2022.
• “On Sleeping Near a Dead Moose in the Talkeetna Mountains&w88 slot;:Deep Wild Journal, Volume 2, 2020.
• “Black Skimmers&w88 slot;:Hawk and Handsaw, January 2019.
• “Albatross Ekphrasis&w88 slot;:Hawk and Handsaw, January 2019.
• “Shaver’s Creek Reflections&w88 slot;:Creek Journals, 2018.
• “Barrier&w88 slot;: Winner of the 2018 Marjorie E. Peale Prize from The Poetry Society of South Carolina.
• “In Which Our Heroine Intends to Write Her Paramour a Letter, Searches for Appropriate Love-Poems to Enclose, and Becomes Irritated by Gender Dynamics&w88 slot;: Winner of the 2018 Humorous Verse Prize from The Poetry Society of South Carolina.
• “Service&w88 slot;: Winner of the 2017 Forum Prize from The Poetry Society of South Carolina.
• “Puppetry&w88 slot;: Winner of the 2017 Patricia and Emmett Robinson Prize from The Poetry Society of South Carolina.
• “w88 slot Lausanne Cathedral&w88 slot;: Winner of the 2016 John Robert Doyle, Jr. Prize from The Poetry Society of South Carolina.

Visual Art

• "Flight Beyond Words: Hairy Woodpecker.&w88 slot; Forthcoming inA Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia, w88 slot of Georgia Press, 2024.
• "Flight Beyond Words: Northern Goshawk.&w88 slot; Forthcoming inA Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia, w88 slot of Georgia Press, 2024.

Education

• MFA in w88 slot (January 2022). Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT.
  Program: Dual-Genre in w88 slot and Creative Nonfiction.
• M.A. in English (December 2012) w88 slot, Reno.
  Program: w88 slot and the Environment.
• B.A. in English (May 2009). Furman w88 slot, Greenville, SC.