Prudence Arceneaux


Post-Secondary Education

Southwest Texas State University
Master of Fine Arts
Creative Writing


Teaching Experience

Austin Community College                                Professor                                              1998 to present

Project Pass, San Marcos                                  Writing Instructor                                  Summer 98

San Marcos Baptist Academy                             ESL Tutor                                              1998

Wimberley High School                                       Creative Writing Workshop                1998

Southwest Texas State University                      Teaching Asst.                                     1997,1998

Southwest Texas State Writing Center              Supervisor                                            Summer 97

Southwest Texas State Writing Center              Tutor                                                       1996-97

Great Texas Summer Writing Camp                  Instructor                                              1996,1997


Professional Publications

Books

          LIBERTY (chapbook)                                2021

          DIRT (chapbook)                                      2018

Poems

“The President did not want to see anything ‘difficult’                                            2022

at the National Museum of African American history

and Culture”

 

“Retirement”                                                               Tolson Books Anthology:       forthcoming

                                                                                    The Book of Life After Death

“Just Inside the Gate”                                                 Brain Mill Press, Editor’s                   2022

                                                                                    Pick: Spaces & Places

“Dust Void”                                                                Breathing While Black

                                                                                    Anthology, Alternating Current   (forthcoming)

“Navigation”                                                               National Poetry Month 2022: 2022

                                                                                    Spaces & Place, Brain Mill Press

“Menopause”                                                              Poem-a-Day, Academy of                           2022

                                                                                    American Poets, 29 April

“Crest”                                                                                    TORCH Literary Arts                        2022

“My Cousin Dies, Like a Deer, On the Side              Texas Observer                                              2021

            of the Road”

“language”                                                                  Slipstream #41                        2021

“Scorpinacity”                                                             Plainsongs                               2021

"[The lady lobster is lucky]"                       Cathexis Northwest                       2020

"Dear John"                                               Cathexis Northwest                      2020

"Easy"                                                       Cathexis Northwest                     2020

"Hurricane Season"                                  Tiny Seed Literary Journal          2019

"Christchurch"                                           Willow Review                            2012

"place of good"                                            HazMat                                    2010

"broken kayak"                                           Hazmat                                      2010

"I Weed Like a Woman Angered"               Inkwell                                        2009

"Grotto"                                                      KARAMU                                    2009

"Discover"                                                  WhiskeyIslandMagazine             2008

"Old Town"                                                Westview                                      2008

"Sphinx"                                                     Arch&quiver                                 2007

"Jesse"                                                      Clark StreetReview                      2006

“96”                                                            PoetryHarbour                             2006

“Dirt”                                                          New Texas 2001                           2001

"1000 miles"                                            African Voices                                2000             

"178."                                                       Limestone -Literary Journal           1998

"case file."                                               Analecta 21                                    1995 

           

            Reviews

            "The Monarchs." Southwestern American Literature, Vol. 4 #1.  Fall 1998


Courses Taught

English Composition I  

English Composition II                                                 

Introduction to Literature I                

Introduction to Creative Writing (Fiction)                                                                           

Introduction to Creative Writing  (Poetry and Fiction)                                                   

Introduction to Creative Writing (Poetry, Fiction, Playwriting, Screenwriting) 

Creative Writing-- Forms of Literature   

British Literature: Anglo- Saxons to the Restoration

British Literature- The Romantics to the Present

World Literature- Ancient World to the Renaissance

World Literature-- Renaissance to the Present

American Literature-- Beginnings to Civil War

American Literature- Civil War to the Present


READINGS

         

Dairy Hollow Featured Readers Reading, Eureka Springs, AK                                2022

Western Wyoming Community College- Featured Invited Reader                           2021

Chaps & Broads, Malvern Books, Austin, TX                                                           2019

NEPC Prize Winners’ Reading, Harvard                                                                2018

DIRT Book Launch, Malvern Books, Austin, TX                                                      2018

Banned Books Reading                                                                                              2018

TORCH Reading, bookwoman, Austin, Tx                                                                2018

Winter Solstice Reading, bookwoman, Austin, TX                                                   2018

Reading with Steve Wilson, Malvern Books, Austin, TX                                         2018

SoulNote, bookwoman, Austin, TX                                                                           2018

DIRT Book Launch (Houston), Brazos Books                                                           2018

DIRT Reading, bookwoman, Austin, TX                                                                   2018

SoulNote, Sahara Lounge, Austin, TX                                                                       2017

DIRT Reading, Threadgill’s, Austin, TX                                                                   2017

Banned Books Reading                                                                                              2017

Literary Coffee House (featured reader), Austin, TX                                                2017

Winter Solstice Reading, bookwoman, Austin, TX                                                   2017

Banned Books Reading                                                                                              2016

Public Poetry Reading, Houston, TX                                                                         2015 (Fall)

Banned Books Reading                                                                                              2015

Public Poetry Reading, Houston, TX                                                                         2015 (Spring)

Banned Books Reading                                                                                              2014

Burned, Banned, Blacklisted Austin, TX                                                                     2013

Carnival ah Austin Community College, Austin, TX                                                  2013

The Blues: Works of Love and Loss,   Austin, TX                                                   2010

The Blues: Works of Love and Loss,   Austin, TX (with Debra Monroe)               2009

Female Empowered Erotica Reading, Austin, TX                                                  2009

CCTE, Austin, TX                                                                                                   2009

 The Blues: Works of Love and Loss, Austin, TX  (with Lyman Grant,                  2008

                                   Maxine Beach, Tonya Lyles)

 ACC Creative Writing Faculty Reading, Austin, TX                                           2007

 SPRUNG, Austin, TX  (with Maxine Beach)                                                       2007

 Spring Into Sex, Austin, TX (with Maxine Beach and Susan                               2006

                        Stockton)

 ACC Literary Festival, Austin Community College, Austin, TX                             2000, 2001

 CCTE- Austin, TX                                                                                                   2000

 University of Mary Hardin- Baylor Literary Festival                                           2000

 Post Valentine's Day Massacre (MC), Austin Community                               2000

                        College, Austin, TX

 Jack Kerouac Festival, Southwest Texas State U., San Marcos, TX                  1999

 ACC Rio Room, Austin Community College, Austin, TX                                     1998   

 MFA Graduate Student Reading, SWT, San Marcos, TX                                   1997, 1998

 Mary Shelley Bicentennial Festival, SWT, San Marcos, TX                               1997

 Upward Bound- At Risk Students, San Marcos, TX                                           1996



Published: January 28, 2024