Summary
Talley V. Kayser has worked at the intersection of literary study and environmental education since 2012. Prior to joining the University of Nevada, Reno faculty, she directed Pennsylvania State University’s Adventure Literature program, which integrated field study into undergraduate literature courses. Talley’s background also includes over 30,000 hours as a professional outdoor educator and wilderness guide.
In addition to teaching composition courses, Talley writes prose and poetry that consider the entangled relationships among humans, other species, and the places we share—with the aim of responding to our messy cultural and ecological moment with ethical thought and action.
Courses taught
- ENG 342: Literature of Environmental Justice (Lake Tahoe campus)
- ENG 100I
- ENG 101
- ENG 102
Selected publications
Prose
- “Moonsight”: Waterwheel Review, Issue 31, 2023.
- “Coordinates”: The Gettysburg Review, Volume 34.3, 2023.
- “And When You Speak You Hear It Still”: Deep Wild Journal, Volume 4, 2022.
- “On The Birds of the Air”: The Fourth River, Issue 0.7, 2020.
- “A Better Animal”: The Hopper, Issue IV, 2019. Nominated for a 2019 Pushcart Prize.
- “Notes from the End of the Affair”: The Hopper, 2019.
- “Shaver’s Creek Reflections”: Creek Journals, 2018.
- “Cuttings”: The Hopper, Issue I, 2016.
Poetry
- "Suppose Your Mother Is A Beaver”: Forthcoming in A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia, University of Georgia Press, 2024.
- “The Pangolin, Revisited”: Cimarron Review, Issue 218, 2024.
- “Advice to a Monolith”: Rattle[Poets Respond], June 23 2024.
- “The Fire, Never Far”: Alpinist 85, 2024.
- “As a Kayaking Guide, I Always Describe Oyster Sex With Particular Care”: Deep Wild Journal, Volume 5, 2023. Nominated for a 2024 Pushcart Prize.
- “The Ultralight Hiker Reconsiders”: Adventure Sports Journal, Issue 128, April/May 2023.
- “Genesis”: Between Paradise and Earth: Eve Poems, 2023.
- “My Body Stops the Sun”: Alpinist 81, 2023.
- “Alpine Start”: Alpinist 78, 2022.
- “The Mother Considers Her Hometown”: Cider Press Review, 2022.
- “Alpine Shelter”: Alpinist 77, 2022.
- “A Series of Discoveries”: High Desert Journal, 2022.
- “On Sleeping Near a Dead Moose in the Talkeetna Mountains”: Deep Wild Journal, Volume 2, 2020.
- “Black Skimmers”: Hawk and Handsaw, January 2019.
- “Albatross Ekphrasis”: Hawk and Handsaw, January 2019.
- “Shaver’s Creek Reflections”: Creek Journals, 2018.
- “Barrier”: Winner of the 2018 Marjorie E. Peale Prize from The Poetry Society of South Carolina.
- “In Which Our Heroine Intends to Write Her Paramour a Letter, Searches for Appropriate Love-Poems to Enclose, and Becomes Irritated by Gender Dynamics”: Winner of the 2018 Humorous Verse Prize from The Poetry Society of South Carolina.
- “Service”: Winner of the 2017 Forum Prize from The Poetry Society of South Carolina.
- “Puppetry”: Winner of the 2017 Patricia and Emmett Robinson Prize from The Poetry Society of South Carolina.
- “From Lausanne Cathedral”: Winner of the 2016 John Robert Doyle, Jr. Prize from The Poetry Society of South Carolina.
Visual Art
- "Flight Beyond Words: Hairy Woodpecker.” Forthcoming in A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia, University of Georgia Press, 2024.
- "Flight Beyond Words: Northern Goshawk.” Forthcoming in A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia, University of Georgia Press, 2024.
Education
- MFA in Writing (January 2022). Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT.
Program: Dual-Genre in Poetry and Creative Nonfiction. - M.A. in English (December 2012) University of Nevada, Reno.
Program: Literature and the Environment. - B.A. in English (May 2009). Furman University, Greenville, SC.