John Kneisley (he/him) teaches courses in the English department and for CSU's Green and Gold Initiative. This spring of 2025, he designed and is teaching a new Green and Gold course called "To the Underworld and Back: Questions on the Nature of Death and Renewal." At CSU, he has also taught E311: Intermediate Poetry Workshop, E210: Beginning Creative Writing, CO300: Writing Arguments, and CO150: College Composition.

John's writing interests include death, mythology, and memory, his current book project exploring death as a site of caregiving, transition, and dream, in tandem with the more-than-human world. His recent poetry appears or is forthcoming in Orion, Ecotone, Poet Lore, EcoTheo Review, North American Review, Quarterly West, Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere, and has been supported with scholarships from the Community of Writers Workshop and the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference.