CM Burroughs serves as Assistant Professor of Poetry at Columbia College Chicago. Burroughs has been awarded fellowships and grants from Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Cave Canem Foundation, Callaloo Writers Workshop and the University of Pittsburgh. She has received commissions from the Studio Museum of Harlem and the Warhol Museum to create poetry in response to art installations. A Pushcart Prize nominee and a finalist for the 2009 Gift of Freedom Award, her poetry has appeared in journals including Callaloo, jubilat, Ploughshares, VOLT, Bat City Review, and Sou’wester. Burroughs is a graduate of Sweet Briar College and the MFA program at the University of Pittsburgh. The Vital System is her debut collection of poetry from Tupelo Press. She is Senior Editor for Tupelo Quarterly and co-Editor for Court Green. 

Website: www.cmburroughs.com

Publications

• The Vital System , Tupelo Press (October 2012)

Employment

• Assistant Professor of Poetry and Literature at Columbia College Chicago (August 2013 - )
• Elma Stuckey Poet in Residence at Columbia College Chicago (August 2011 - May 2013)
• Visiting Lecturer at University of Pittsburgh (August 2007 - April 2011)

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in English/Creative Writing from Sweet Briar College (December 2003)
• Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from University of Pittsburgh (April 2007)

Genres of Interest

Creative nonfiction, Poetry