Callista Buchen holds an MA from the University of Oregon, an MFA from Bowling Green State University, and a PhD from the University of Kansas.
She is the author of the full-length collection Look Look Look (Black Lawrence Press, October 2019), the chapbooks The Bloody Planet (Black Lawrence Press, October 2015) and Double-Mouthed (dancing girl press, October 2017). Her work appears in Harpur Palate, Puerto del Sol, Fourteen Hills, Salamander, RHINO, and others. A frequent workshop leader, presenter, and editor, she serves as a poetry consultant for Black Lawrence Press, as well as volunteers with a local literacy organization, tutoring ELL adults. She is the founder of the Carlson-Stauffer Reading Series at Franklin College in Indiana, where she served as the director of creative writing. Her awards include first prize in DIAGRAM’s essay contest, the C.D Wright conference’s Emerging Writer award, the Lawrence Arts Center’s Langston Hughes Award, and a Creative Renewal Fellowship from the Indy Arts Council (a $10,000 individual artist grant). She lives in Wisconsin with her family.
For more information about readings, workshops, video conferencing and virtual classroom visits, manuscript consultations, and other services, please contact cmbuchen@gmail.com.
(photo by Megan Kearney)