Graduate Teaching Assistant
Genevieve Guzmán (they/she) is a genderfluid poet with hypermobility syndrome. Their poetry and translations appear or will in Flyway, Columbia Journal Online, Waxwing, Nat. Brut, Passages North, and Tupelo Quarterly, among other publications, under the pen name Genevieve Arlie. A nominee for Best of the Net and The Best Small Fictions, they're also an inaugural Zoeglossia fellow for poets with disabilities. At UGA they are reading for comprehensive exams in contemporary transgender literature, twentieth-century illness memoirs, and the pastoral before 1900 in preparation for their dissertation, a collection of narrative poems.
Education
Education:
- MFA, comparative literature–translation, University of Iowa, 2015
- MA, Russian literature, Columbia University, 2012
- BA, English, Stanford University, 2005
Research
Grants:
- Shelter scholarship, Willson Center for Humanities & Arts, 5/21
- Charlayne Hunter-Gault Giving Voice to the Voiceless grant, Grady College of Journalism, 2/21
- James B. Colvert travel award, UGA English Department, 5/19
- Graduate research award, Willson Center for Humanities & Arts, 2/18
- Presidential Fellow, UGA Graduate School, 1/17
Awards, Honors and Recognitions
Of note:
(As Genevieve Arlie)
- "Original Bliss," Earth Day Community Art Challenge, Sustainable UGA (Apr. 2022)
- "Of late, all creatures," Zoeglossia Poem of the Week (Jan. 2021)
- "The Beautiful Mind of Hedy Lamarr," Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde (Apr. 2020)