Bio:
Travis Sharp is a poet, editor, book artist, and teacher. He has an MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics from the University of Washington, Bothell, and a PhD in English from the University at Buffalo, where he was part of the Poetics Program. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the UB Department of English, where he teaches classes in writing and poetry.
He is the author of the poetry book Yes, I am a corpse flower, which was published with the Toronto publisher and bookstore Knife Fork Book in 2021. His previous publications include a chapbook, Sinister Queer Agenda, published by above/ground press in 2018, and a co-edited anthology of essays in response to the 2016 US Presidential election, Radio: 11.8.16, co-edited with Aimee Harrison and Maria Anderson, and published by Essay Press in 2017. He has also published a number of book objects, artist's books, and experimental chapbooks, including one plus one is two ones (Recreational Resources, 2018), The Cargo Pants Pocket Anthology of Peer Reviewed Articles (Letter [r] Press, 2017), Small Po_tions (Letter [r] Press, 2016), and FEARHEAR GESTHARE URESHARM HEREHIRE (aether inK, 2015), among others.
During his MFA, he collaborated with colleagues Aimee Harrison, LB Burgher, Sarah Baker, Lynarra Featherly, Tracy Gregory, and Breka Blakeslee, founding the journal Small Po[r]tions and the editorial collective Letter [r] Press. He later went on to join the editorial board of Essay Press before becoming its Executive Editor in late 2019. With Meagan Wilson, he is also co-curating the Plantable Chapbooks series of poetry chapbooks that are letterpress printed on paper embedded with seeds, which are designed to be planted after being read, sprouting into a variety of wildflowers.
He has taught classes on poetry, fiction, and USAmerican literature from 1865-present, as well as on activist writing and writing for non-profits, professional writing, and introductory courses on writing and rhetoric. At UWB, he co-taught a year-long course series with health sciences professor Andrea Stone in which students edited and peer reviewed a journal of undergraduate and graduate student scholarship, resulting in the ongoing publication The CROW: Campus Research and Observational Writings.
In addition to teaching both introductory and advanced undergraduate writing workshops in creative writing, he also is a teaching artist at the Just Buffalo Writing Center in downtown Buffalo, an arts non-profit dedicated to providing free workshops to youth and teenagers. For one of these workshops, he collaborated with UB Poetics Program Director Judith Goldman, the Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper, and Just Buffalo to stage a months-long workshop series on plastic waste, ecopoetics, and environmental racism and injustice, culminating in a public performance of student poetry at the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo.
Travis Sharp is a poet, editor, book artist, and teacher. He has an MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics from the University of Washington, Bothell, and a PhD in English from the University at Buffalo, where he was part of the Poetics Program. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the UB Department of English, where he teaches classes in writing and poetry.
He is the author of the poetry book Yes, I am a corpse flower, which was published with the Toronto publisher and bookstore Knife Fork Book in 2021. His previous publications include a chapbook, Sinister Queer Agenda, published by above/ground press in 2018, and a co-edited anthology of essays in response to the 2016 US Presidential election, Radio: 11.8.16, co-edited with Aimee Harrison and Maria Anderson, and published by Essay Press in 2017. He has also published a number of book objects, artist's books, and experimental chapbooks, including one plus one is two ones (Recreational Resources, 2018), The Cargo Pants Pocket Anthology of Peer Reviewed Articles (Letter [r] Press, 2017), Small Po_tions (Letter [r] Press, 2016), and FEARHEAR GESTHARE URESHARM HEREHIRE (aether inK, 2015), among others.
During his MFA, he collaborated with colleagues Aimee Harrison, LB Burgher, Sarah Baker, Lynarra Featherly, Tracy Gregory, and Breka Blakeslee, founding the journal Small Po[r]tions and the editorial collective Letter [r] Press. He later went on to join the editorial board of Essay Press before becoming its Executive Editor in late 2019. With Meagan Wilson, he is also co-curating the Plantable Chapbooks series of poetry chapbooks that are letterpress printed on paper embedded with seeds, which are designed to be planted after being read, sprouting into a variety of wildflowers.
He has taught classes on poetry, fiction, and USAmerican literature from 1865-present, as well as on activist writing and writing for non-profits, professional writing, and introductory courses on writing and rhetoric. At UWB, he co-taught a year-long course series with health sciences professor Andrea Stone in which students edited and peer reviewed a journal of undergraduate and graduate student scholarship, resulting in the ongoing publication The CROW: Campus Research and Observational Writings.
In addition to teaching both introductory and advanced undergraduate writing workshops in creative writing, he also is a teaching artist at the Just Buffalo Writing Center in downtown Buffalo, an arts non-profit dedicated to providing free workshops to youth and teenagers. For one of these workshops, he collaborated with UB Poetics Program Director Judith Goldman, the Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper, and Just Buffalo to stage a months-long workshop series on plastic waste, ecopoetics, and environmental racism and injustice, culminating in a public performance of student poetry at the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo.
