Martha Serpas (born 1965) is an American poet and educator. She has published a few poetry books and is a professor at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program.

Biography

Serpas was born on December 10, 1965, in

Galliano, Louisiana Galliano is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) on the Bayou Lafourche in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, United States. As of 2020, its population was 7,100. It is part of the Houma– Bayou Cane– Thibodaux m ...

. She received her BA degree from

Louisiana State University Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as Louisiana State University (LSU), is an American Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Baton Rouge, Louis ...

. She subsequently did graduate study at

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...

(MA),

Yale Divinity School Yale Divinity School (YDS) is one of the twelve graduate and professional schools of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Congregationalist theological education was the motivation at the founding of Yale, and the professional school has ...

(M.Div.), and the

University of Houston The University of Houston (; ) is a Public university, public research university in Houston, Texas, United States. It was established in 1927 as Houston Junior College, a coeducational institution and one of multiple junior colleges formed in ...

(PhD). Serpas formerly taught at the

University of Tampa The University of Tampa (UTampa, UT or Tampa U) is a private university in Tampa, Florida. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. UTampa offers more than 200 programs of study, including 19 master's degrees and a br ...

and is currently on faculty at the

as at March 31, 2018. See he
Faculty profile
Her first volume of poetry, ''Cote Blanche,'' appeared in 2002 from New Issues press at

Western Michigan University Western Michigan University (Western Michigan, Western or WMU) is a Public university, public research university in Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States. It was initially established as Western State Normal School in 1903 by Governor Aaron T. B ...

; a second volume of poetry, "The Dirty Side of the Storm" was released by Norton in October 2006; and her third, "The Diener" was released by LSU Press in 2015. Her most recent volume is "Double Effect" by LSU Press. Her poems are included in ''Uncommonplace: An Anthology of Louisiana Poets'' (LSU Press); "The Art of the Sonnet" (Harvard); "Bearing the Mystery: The Best of Image"; and other anthologies. A 2005 issue of The New Yorker includes three of her poems. Additional poems are included in Harold Bloom's 2006 anthology "American Religious Poems." Two poems from "The Dirty Side of the Storm,"along with audio, are in the Winter 2006 issue of 2River.

Bibliography

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References

External links

Two Poems from "The Dirty Side of the Storm"
* Audio
Martha Serpas reads "The Water"
from the book ''The Dirty Side of the Storm'' (vi
poemsoutloud.net
1965 births Living people Louisiana State University alumni Poets from Louisiana New York University alumni Yale Divinity School alumni University of Tampa faculty American women poets People from Galliano, Louisiana The New Yorker people 21st-century American poets American women academics 21st-century American women writers {{US-poet-1960s-stub