Prudence Arceneaux
Teaching Experience
Austin Community College Department Chair 2023 to present
of Creative Writing
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
PROPRIOCEPTION 2025
LIBERTY (chapbook) 2021
DIRT (chapbook) 2018
Poems
“Irruption” Praisesong for the People 2025
Anthology (print)
“When Someone Decides Your Black Life Deep in the Soul of Texas 2025
Doesn’t Matter” (first anthology of Black
Texas Poets)
“Dust Void” Breathing While Black 2025
Anthology, Alternating Current
“Austin Police Department and Nazi Cowboys Black Fire This Time II 2024
Meet ‘N’ Greet on the Far West Boulevard Anthology
Bridge”
“Irruption” Praisesong For The People 2024
(website)
“Retirement” Tolson Books Anthology: 2023
The Book of Life After Death
“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 : Fiction
Creative Writing--Forms of Literature: Poetry
Creative Writing-- Forms of Literature: Poetry & Prose
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
Texas Book Festival Poetry Tent: Reading and Discusion 2025
Texas Book Festival Lit Crawl: TORCH Showcase 2025
Texas Book Festival Lit Crawl: Texas Poetry Crush 2025
Texas Book Festival Poetry Tent: Poetry at the Intersection of Race, Body 2025
and Identity
TORCH Day at Bookpeople 2025
One Page Salon (Writers' League of Texas 2025
Bosque Books 2025
Basket Books and Art, Houston Book Launch w/ Jasminne Mendez 2025
Saturday Night Special w/ Hollie Hardy 2025
DRAG THE BAN (MC/Organizer) 2025
Texas Review Press Reading (zoom) with Octavio Quintanilla, Raye Hendrix, 2025
Theodora Ziolkowski, Kimberly Ann Priest
PecanTown Books 2025
PROPRIOCEPTION Book Launch, Bookpeople 2025
Women’s History Month Reading, Austin Community College 2025
BookWoman’s Winter Holiday 49th Celebration 2024
Author Drop- In (ACC ENGL2341 Class) with Eli Ryder 2024
Praisesong for the People reading, RADIO Coffee & Beer 2024
Torch Day @ BookPeople 2024
BANNED, Banned Books Week Reading 2024
Last Writes (San Antonio) 2024
DRAG THE BAN Reading 2024
LIONS LIKE US Book Launch, Reading with Hollie Hardy 2024
Art + Literature, TAG In- Gallery Programs, Ekphrastic Responses 2023
to Narrated Memories: Artworks by ACC Alumni
Black Motherhood Poetry Showcase, The Highball Bar, Austin, TX 2023
Austin Bat Cave-- Story Department: Halloween 2023
BANNED, Banned Books Week Reading (MC/Organizer) 2023
DRAG THE BAN (MC/Organizer) 2023
OUR REACH: Life, Love, Resilience (Women’s History Month) 2023
BANNED, Banned Books Week Reading 2022
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 29, 2026