Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor (’00), professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Georgia, is the author of the poetry book, Imperfect Tense (2016) and five other books on the arts of language and education. Recipient of six NEA Big Read Grants, a 2023 NEA Distinguished Fellowship, Hambidge Residency Award, and the Beckman award, she was appointed in 2020 as Fulbright Scholar Ambassador. Her 2024 poems, translations, and essays have or will appear in the Bitter Southerner, Southern Humanities Review, Rattle, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Poetry Northwest, and Hadassah Magazine. Her forthcoming book on craft for social scientists, The Creative Ethnographer’s Notebook is forthcoming in fall 2024.
