Faculty

Kristin Naca

Visiting Instructor, CFD Fellow

Ph.D. English, University of Nebraska
M.F.A. Poetry, University of Pittsburgh
M.A. English Linguistics, University of Cincinnati

Kristin Naca is a poet and CFD Fellow. She teaches courses in poetics, Asian American and Latino poetry, and creative writing. She received her Ph.D. in English from University of Nebraska (2008), M.F.A. in poetry from University of Pittsburgh (2003), and M.A. in English Linguistics from University of Cincinnati (2000). Her poems have appeared recently in Harpur Palate and Indiana Review, and are forthcoming in Bloom and Rio Grande Review. She has been a member of the Macondo Workshop in San Antonio, TX, since 2002.

Areas of Study

• Poetics
• 20th century, ethnic and avant-garde poetry
• Creative writing: poetry, fiction, non-fiction
• Latin American, surrealist, border poetry

Fall 2009 Course

• American Voices

Past Macalester Courses

• Latino Poetics
• Asian American Poetics

Links

• Kristin Naca's poem "House," in Octopus Magazine.
• mtvU interview with poet Yusef Komunyakaa