Janelle Adsit is a poet, essayist, and teacher of creative writing. She is an assistant professor of Writing Practices and affiliated faculty in the Environmental Studies program at Humboldt State University where she teaches creative writing, environmental writing, and literary publishing.
Her works include the poetry collection Unremitting Entrance and a chapbook titled Press Yourself Against a Mirror. Her poetry and essays have appeared in literary journals such as Cultural Society, Lalitamba, and Requited.
Adsit has published three books meant to support the teaching of creative writing. She is editor of Critical Creative Writing: Essential Readings on the Writer's Craft (2018) and author of the book Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing: Threshold Concepts to Guide the Literary Writing Curriculum (2017). She also co-authored, with Renée M. Byrd, the book Writing Intersectional Identities: Keywords for Creative Writers (2019).
Her book Mindfulness, Epistemic Justice, and the Environmental Humanities will be released from Routledge in 2021.
Her research straddles the environmental humanities and creative writing. Articles have appeared in Pedagogy, Feminist Formations and New Writing, and collections such as Creative Writing in the Digital Age and Creative Writing Innovations.
Janelle holds a PhD from SUNY-Albany and a master's degree from Colorado State University. She lives in Northern California. She can be reached at www.criticalcreativewriting.org.
Her works include the poetry collection Unremitting Entrance and a chapbook titled Press Yourself Against a Mirror. Her poetry and essays have appeared in literary journals such as Cultural Society, Lalitamba, and Requited.
Adsit has published three books meant to support the teaching of creative writing. She is editor of Critical Creative Writing: Essential Readings on the Writer's Craft (2018) and author of the book Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing: Threshold Concepts to Guide the Literary Writing Curriculum (2017). She also co-authored, with Renée M. Byrd, the book Writing Intersectional Identities: Keywords for Creative Writers (2019).
Her book Mindfulness, Epistemic Justice, and the Environmental Humanities will be released from Routledge in 2021.
Her research straddles the environmental humanities and creative writing. Articles have appeared in Pedagogy, Feminist Formations and New Writing, and collections such as Creative Writing in the Digital Age and Creative Writing Innovations.
Janelle holds a PhD from SUNY-Albany and a master's degree from Colorado State University. She lives in Northern California. She can be reached at www.criticalcreativewriting.org.