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).