Christie Collins

Christie Collins

Division

  • Instructors & Lecturers

Classification

  • Lecturer

Contact

christie.collins@msstate.edu
662-325-3644

Address

  • 269 Allen Hall

Education

  • Ph.D., Cardiff University (Wales, U.K.), 2020
  • Ph.D., University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2013-2016
  • M.A., Mississippi State University, 2011
  • B.A., Mississippi University for Women, 2007

Teaching Interests

  • Creative Writing
  • Poetry Writing
  • Microfiction
  • Nonfiction
  • Southern Literature
  • Contemporary Southern Poetry
  • American Literature
  • Magic Realism

Collins Book Cover

Collins Chapbook

Book

 

            The Art of Coming Undone (poems). Eyewear Press/Black Springs Group, London, 2023.   

 

Chapbook

 

            Along the Diminishing Stretch of Memory (poems). Dancing Girl Press. 2014.

 

Selected Poem Publications

 

“Elegy.” Cold Mountain Review: Retrospective Poetry Issue. Fall/Winter 2024.

“Moonstruck.” Stirring. October 2020.

“Another Night on Bourbon Street.” Phantom Drift. Issue 9. Winter 2020.

“The Truth About Leaving.” Poetica Review. Spring 2019.

“Kintsugi.” Poetica Review. Spring 2019.

“Girl Talk.” Ekphrastic Review. January 2019.

“Blue Pill.” The Cardiff Review. Autumn 2018.

“Nesting.” Ekphrastic Review. April 2018.

“Depression.” The Cardiff Review. Summer 2018.

“Letters to the Living: Charles Francis.” Appalachian Heritage. Winter 2018.

“Myth.” Appalachian Heritage. Winter 2018.

“Study of the Infinite.” Appalachian Heritage. Winter 2018.

 

Academic Works

 

“Southern Poetry and Natasha Trethewey” (essay/reference entry). Routledge Companion to

Literature of the U.S. South, edited by Monica Miller, Katie Burnett, and Todd Hagstette, 2022.

Call Me Daughter: A Critical Examination of Southern Ambivalence and the Adult-Child Voice in

Contemporary Southern Poetry (PhD Thesis). Cardiff University, 2020.

 

Anthologies

 

Divergent Writers: Disability, Illness, Neurodivergence and Ableism in Creative Writing (Co-Editor and

Contributor), forthcoming from Bloomsbury Academic.

            “Write It!” (micro-nonfiction). Bodies of Words: Stories on Skin, edited by Jennifer

Goldring and Melanie Whithaus. December Press, 2019.

 

Reviews

 

“The Book of Whys: A Review of Melinda Thomsen’s Armature” (Book Review). North Carolina Literary Review (NCLR). Winter 2024.

“Look Closer, Listen: A Review of Susan Schmidt and Becky Gould Gibson” (Book Review). North Carolina Literary Review (NCLR) Online. January 2020.

“Lyric of Being: Jeremy Hooker’s Ancestral Lines” (Book Review). Poetry Wales.

            Summer 2018.

“‘More Stone than Wood’… ‘More Flesh than Stone’: A Review of Kathy Fagan’s Sycamore”  

(Book Review). Kenyon Review Online. 2017.

“Catherine Pierce's 'The Tornado Is the World' Grapples with Natural Disaster and

Emotional Chaos” (Book Review). Chicago Review of Books. December 2016.