Prudence Arceneaux
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