Assistant Teaching Professor

About

  • Role

    Faculty

  • Position

    • Assistant Teaching Professor
    • Faculty Director, Literacy Through Prose and Poetry at CSU

  • Concentration

    • Creative Writing, Poetry
    • Composition and Literature

  • Department

    • English, English Undergrad, and University Composition Program

  • Education

    • Doctor of Education (Transformative Leadership)
    • Masters of Arts (Creative Writing)
    • Masters of Arts (Education)
    • Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing)
    • Doctor of Philosophy (Creative Writing), expected 2028

Biography

Devon Fulford (she/her) is the author of the poetry collections thrum (2026), hopscotch (2026), you can still drown in the shallows (2026), onus (2025), gulp (2024), the skin song (2024), and southern atheist: oh, honey (2021). She serves as the faculty director for the Literacy Through Prose and Poetry at Colorado State University program, where she teaches writing and literature courses. Devon holds a Doctor of Education in transformative leadership and is in the first year of a PhD in creative writing, in which she is composing a craft book about the benefits of using experiential learning in the writing classroom.

Devon resides on the front range of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and loves doing everything with her partner and chocolate Labrador (The Walrus), riding her Triumph Street Twin, dancing without compunction at live music shows, and advocating for conversations about topics that make us squirm. Visit her website: https://www.definwords.com/

Devon's research interests include experiential learning, positive psychology, cultivating empathy in the humanities classroom, and utilizing writing as a tool of leadership and change with populations of college students, adult learners, and incarcerated persons.

Publications

Poetry Collections (Chapbooks and Full-Length)

 

Poetry/Lyrical Essays

Single Poems/Lyrical Essays 

  • “our stupid crayolas,” Rat’s Ass Review (United States), Fall 2024
  • “good night,” StreetLit (Denmark), Summer 2024
  • “seasonal,” Half and One (India), Spring 2024
  • “what they call girls who look like sex,” B O D Y (Czech Republic), Spring 2024
  • “things they won’t tell you, but should,” Abandon Journal (United States), Spring 2023
  • “appetites,” Abandon Journal (United States), Summer 2022
  • “the first year,” Ethel Magazine (United States), Summer 2022
  • “and the bread will burn,” Ember Chasm Review, Winter 2022
    • Second place winner for Ember Chasm Review’s 2021 Fiction and Poetry Contest
  • “every skin decadence,” Sepia Quarterly (United States), Nostalgia Anthology, Winter 2022
  • “sloth: a real backseat activist,” Prose Online (United States), Winter 2021
    • First runner-up for Prose Online’s International Flash Prose Prize
  • “1998: lip smacker-ed, cherry bowed,” The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature (United States), Winter 2021
  • “1997: sweetest tang of nothing,” Ember Chasm Review, Fall 2021
  • “1999: lack of oxygen at elevations this high,” Ember Chasm Review, Fall 2021
  • “2008: a naked period of grieving,” Ember Chasm Review, Fall 2021
  • “wattage,” First Literary Review-East (United States), Fall 2021
  • “mouth sounds,” First Literary Review-East (United States), Summer 2021
  • “gasoline to cure lice,” Eunoia Review (Singapore), Spring 2021
  • “january,” Eunoia Review (Singapore), Spring 2021
  • “nostalgia,” Lucky Jefferson (United States), Spring 2021
  • “1992: our central yawn is opening,” Longridge Review (United States), Spring 2021
  • “1993: messy like periods would be,” Longridge Review (United States), Spring 2021
  • “1994: forget the singe of burning,” Longridge Review (United States), Spring 2021
  • “1995: sleepy pre-teen erections,” Longridge Review (United States), Spring 2021
  • “1996: what they want me to be,” Longridge Review (United States), Spring 2021
  • “he didn’t die,” Prose Online (United States), Spring 2021
  • “2003: suck the marrow of me,” Blood Pudding Press (United States), Spring 2021
  • “2004: punk flesh decadence,” Blood Pudding Press (United States), Spring 2021
  • “2005: movement pleads to take another form,” Blood Pudding Press (United States), Spring 2021
  • “2011: for a while, i float,” Blood Pudding Press (United States), Spring 2021
  • “7,” Cathexis Northwest Press (United States), Winter 2021
  • “10,” Cathexis Northwest Press (United States), Winter 2021
  • “12,” Cathexis Northwest Press (United States), Winter 2021
  • “6,” Blood Pudding Press (United States), Fall 2020
  • “9,” Blood Pudding Press (United States), Fall 2020
  • “11,” Blood Pudding Press, (United States) Fall 2020
  • “14,” Blood Pudding Pres (United States), Fall 2020
  • “George Hjorth Never Saw the Film He Shot at Normandy,” From Whispers to Roars Arts & Literary Magazine (United States), Summer 2020
  • “In the Beginning, I was a Moth,” Indolent Books (United States), Summer 2020
  • “Silence is Not,” Indolent Books (United States), Summer 2020
  • “Two Dumb Syllables,” Indolent Books (United States), Summer 2020
  • “Lapse,” Literati Magazine (Switzerland), Spring 2020
  • “Lines,” Literati Magazine (Switzerland), Spring 2020
  • “Parable,” Literati Magazine (Switzerland), Spring 2020
  • “In Parts,” Dreamers Magazine (Canada), Spring 2020 and reprinted online, January 2021
  • "Descent," selected as finalist in Crosswinds Poetry Journal's (United States) 2019 annual poetry contest by judge Richard Blanco, inaugural poet for Barack Obama
  • "They Say," Sunspot Literary Journal (United States), Spring 2020
  • "Holidaze," Sunspot Literary Journal (United States), Spring 2020
  • "We Will Wait by the Lake," Allegory Ridge's (United States) poetry anthology, Aurora, Spring 2020
  • "Pink," Inklette (United States), Issue VIII, Summer 2019
  • "Religion, Love, God," Poety.com Best of 2003; published in Pen Pusher's Publications (United States), 2004
  • "Fight Me," Noble House's Theatre of the Mind (United States), Winter 2004
  • "Poetry," Poetry.com Who's Who of American Poets (United States), 2004
  • "Speak," Poetry.com (United States), Best of 2003

Fiction

  • "She," the Same literary journal, 2017
  • "Polaroid #121," Foundpolaroids.com, 2015
  • "Polaroid #89,” Foundpolaroids.com, 2015

Creative Nonfiction

  • "Last Christmas" Handbasket Zine, 2015

Educational nonfiction

First Generation Story

I am a first-generation college graduate and extend a kind welcome to all first-gen students at CSU!