Jeanetta Calhoun Mish is a poet, writer and literary scholar; in 2009, she earned her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Oklahoma. She has published critical essays in Stunned into Being: Essays on the Poetry of Lorna Dee Cervantes and in Mediating Chicana/o Culture: Multicultural American Vernacular. Her first poetry book, Tongue Tied Woman, won the Edda Poetry Chapbook Competition for Women in 2002. Her second poetry collection, Work Is Love Made Visible (West End Press, 2009), won the 2010 Oklahoma Book Award for Poetry, the 2010 Western Heritage Award for Poetry from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum and the 2010 WILLA Award for Poetry from Women Writing the West. Mish has published poetry in, among others, This Land, Naugatuck River Review, Concho River Review, LABOR: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, About Place, Yellow Medicine Review, The Mind[less] Muse, Sugar Mule, Blast Furnace, and The Fiddleback.  Mish’s prose has appeared in Oklahoma Today, Sugar Mule, and World Literature Today. Anthology publications include poems in Returning the Gift and The Colour of Resistance, and the introductory essay for Ain't Nobody That Can Sing Like Me: New Oklahoma Writing. She is also the editor of the award-winning Mongrel Empire Press, serves as contributing editor for Sugar Mule: A Literary Journal and for Oklahoma Today. Dr. Mish is the Director of The Red Earth Creative Writing MFA program at Oklahoma City University where she also serves as a faculty member in poetry.

Website: www.tonguetiedwoman.com

Publications

• Oklahomeland: Essays , Forthcoming from Lamar University Press (December 2015)
• Work Is Love Made Visible , West End Press (2009)
• Tongue Tied Woman , Winner of the 2001 Edda Poetry Chapbook for Women Competition. Sarasota, FL: SOULSPEAK/Sarasota Poetry Theater. (2002)

Awards

• National Edda Poetry Chapbook for Women Competition(2001)
• Oklahoma Book Award for Work Is Love Made Visible(2010)
• WILLA Award from Women Writing the West for Work Is Love Made Visible(2010)
• Western Heritage Award ("Wrangler") for Work Is Love Made Visible(2010)

Employment

• Director & Faculty Mentor at The Red Earth Creative Writing MFA @ Oklahoma City University (July 2012 - )

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from University of Texas-Permian Basin (May 2001)
• Master of Arts in English Literature from University of Texas-Permian Basin (May 2003)
• Doctoral Degree in American Literature from University of Oklahoma (December 2009)

Genres of Interest

Creative nonfiction, Poetry