Alexandra Teague

Alexandra Teague is a Professor of English and Associate Chair at the University of Idaho’s College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences. She also serves as Co-Director of the MFA in Creative Writing program and Co-Director of Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. Her academic roles include teaching courses on poetry writing, modern poetry, and creative writing pedagogy. Teague holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Florida (1998) and a B.A. in English from Southwest Missouri State University (1996).

Her research focuses on feminist poetics, genre-crossing hybrid forms, and contemporary poetry. Notable works include the poetry collections Mortal Geography (2010), The Wise and Foolish Builders (2015), and Or What We’ll Call Desire (2019), as well as the novel The Principles Behind Flotation (2017) and the anthology Bullets into Bells (2017). Her 2023 memoir Spinning Tea Cups blends myth and personal narrative.

Teague’s work has been recognized with prestigious awards such as the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (2011), Civitella Ranieri Fellowship (2019), and the Missouri Review’s Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize (2014). She actively contributes to literary communities through roles like Senior Editor at Broadsided Press and advisory board member of the Idaho Center for the Book. Her outreach initiatives include co-founding the BASK Collective and curating Vandal Poem of the Day.

Her teaching portfolio includes courses on prosody, women’s literature, and creative writing workshops. She advises graduate students in the MFA program and has mentored through grants like the University of Idaho Seed Grant for The Wise and Foolish Builders. Current research explores intersections of feminist theory and poetic form, with a focus on hybrid genres and public poetry initiatives.