Sasha West

Dr. Sasha West is a poet and professor of creative writing. Her teaching specializations include poetry, the hybrid genre, creativity studies, eco-poetics, and intersections between the visual and literary arts. She coordinates the Environmental Humanities minor.

Sasha West is the author of How to Abandon Ship, finalist for the 2025 Kingsley Tufts, and Failure and I Bury the Body, a National Poetry Series selection. Her awards include multiple Texas Institute of Letters awards, Inprint’s Verlaine Prize, a Writers League of Texas award, and a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Fellowship. Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies, including: American Poetry Review, Ecotone, The Slowdown, Georgia Review, The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood, and Out of Time: Poetry from the Climate Emergency. As eco-arts collaborative Hammonds + West, her multi-media shows with visual artist Hollis Hammonds have been exhibited at the Columbus College of Art and Design, Texas A&M, ArtPrize Michigan, Abilene’s Grace Museum, and elsewhere. She has received the St. Edward's University Distinguished Teaching Award and the Hudspeth Innovative Teaching Award.