Borsuk, Amaranth, 1980-
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Name (Latin)
Borsuk, Amaranth, 1980-
Other forms of name
Borsuk, Amaranth Claire, 1980-
Date of birth
1980-11-02
Associated country
United States
Other associated place
Bothell (Wash.)
Field of activity
Creative writing (Higher education)
Poetry--Study and teaching (Higher)
Poetry
Poetry--Study and teaching (Higher) Creative writing (Higher education) Poetry, Modern--History and criticism
Associate group
University of Washington Bothell
Occupation
Poets University and college faculty members Creative writing teachers Poetry teachers
College teachers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
Fuller form of name
Amaranth Claire
Sources of Information
- Handiwork, 2012:ECIP t.p. (Amaranth Borsuk) data view (b. Nov. 02, 1980; Amaranth Borsuk is the author of a chapbook, Tonal Saw (The Song Cave, 2010); co-author with Brad Bouse of the hybrid digital/print book Between Page and Screen (Siglio Press, February 2012); she holds a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the Univ. of Southern Calif. and is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at MIT)
- OCLC, March 28, 2017(access points: Borsuk, Amaranth; Borsuk, Amaranth Claire, 1980- ; usage: Amaranth Borsuk)
- faculty and staff > IAS faculty > Amaranth Borsuk (Amaranth Borsuk; Assistant Professor; B.A. English, University of California Los Angeles; M.A. English Literature, University of Southern California; Ph.D. Literature and Creative Writing, University of Southern California; [email protected]; my work as a scholar and poet is united by a focus on textual materiality ... My poetry is highly attuned to the texture of words, their resonances and slippages, often drawing on etymology and language play ... In my scholarly work, I am currently completing a monograph that examines the conspicuous foregrounding of mediation in poetry by Gertrude Stein, Blaise Cendrars, and H.D. ( (University of Washington Bothell School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences website, March 28, 2017:) )
- home page (Amaranth Borsuk) about (Her most recent book is Pomegranate Eater (Kore Press, 2016), a collection of poems. Previous books include Handiwork (Slope Editions, 2012), selected by Paul Hoover for the 2011 Slope Editions Poetry Prize; and Tonal Saw (The Song Cave, 2010), a chapbook-length erasure poem. Abra (1913 Press, 2016), a book of mutating poems created with Kate Durbin ... Together with Brad Bouse, she created Between Page and Screen (Siglio Press, 2012; Springgun Press, 2016), a book of augmented-reality poetry; currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington, Bothell, where she also teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics. She and her colleagues run a cross-disciplinary research group, Affect and Audience in the Digital Age, which hosts symposia and speakers through the generous support of the Simpson Center for the Humanities ( (Her website, March 28, 2017:) )
Wikipedia description:
Amaranth Borsuk (born 1981) is an American poet and educator known for her experiments with textual materiality and digital poetry. She is currently an associate professor at the University of Washington Bothell's School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, where she teaches undergraduate courses on poetry, philology, and experimental writing. She also serves as the Chair of the school's M.F.A. program in Creative Writing, which she co-chaired from 2018 to 2022.
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