Poetry reading with Dr. Stacey Waite

Stacey Waite is a poet, activist, educator, and scholar who conducts research in the field of composition and the teaching of writing as well. Originally, from Long Island, New York, Stacey received a Master of Fine Arts in writing in 2002 and a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 2011. Waite is now Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln. Waite has published five collections of poems: Choke (winner of the 2004 Frank O'Hara Prize in Poetry), Love Poem to Androgyny (winner of the 2006 Main Street Rag Chapbook Competition), the lake has no saint (winner of the 2008 Snowbound Prize in Poetry), Butch Geography (Tupelo Press, 2013) and the Lambda Finalist collection, A Real Man Would Have a Gun (University of New Mexico Press, 2025).