AUSTIN SEGREST

 

Austin Segrest is the author of the poetry collections Groom (Unbound Edition Press, 2025) and Door to Remain (UNT Press, 2022). Door to Remain won the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize, the Wisconsin Library Association Outstanding Achievement Award for Poetry, and was a Poetry Society of Virginia North American Poetry Book Award Semifinalist. 

 

Born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, Austin is an Associate Professor of English at Lawrence University in Appleton, WI. He gives readings and workshops all over the country but is especially fond of and proud to participate in his local Appleton arts community.  

 

Austin holds a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing (Poetry) from The University of Missouri (2014) and an MFA from Georgia State University (2009). A former poetry editor of The Missouri Review, he has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, Ucross Foundation, the Hambidge Center, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the NEH.

 

His poems can be found in POETRY, VQR, The Yale Review, The Threepenny Review, Ecotone, The Common, New England Review, Ploughshares, and many other journals. His essays can be found in APR, Poetry Northwest, 32 Poems, Southern Humanities Review, On the Seawall, and Pleiades.

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