COURTNEY A. HUSE WIKA
EDUCATION
University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, Ph.D. in English with a specialization in Creative Writing
University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, M.A. in English with a specialization in Creative Writing
Augustana University, Sioux Falls, SD, B.A. in English and Philosophy, May 2003
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION
Professor, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD 2022
Distinguished Faculty, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD 2019
Associate Professor of English, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD Fall 2017-2021
Former Director of the University Honors Program and Assistant Professor of English, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD Fall 2013-Spring 2018
Former Director of the Writing Center and Assistant Professor of English, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD Fall 2010-Fall 2013
BOOK PUBLICATIONS
Perch. Baton Rouge: Anchor and Plume Press, forthcoming October 2016. (Poetry Chapbook)
EDUCATION
University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, Ph.D. in English with a specialization in Creative Writing
University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, M.A. in English with a specialization in Creative Writing
Augustana University, Sioux Falls, SD, B.A. in English and Philosophy, May 2003
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION
Professor, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD 2022
Distinguished Faculty, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD 2019
Associate Professor of English, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD Fall 2017-2021
Former Director of the University Honors Program and Assistant Professor of English, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD Fall 2013-Spring 2018
Former Director of the Writing Center and Assistant Professor of English, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD Fall 2010-Fall 2013
BOOK PUBLICATIONS
Perch. Baton Rouge: Anchor and Plume Press, forthcoming October 2016. (Poetry Chapbook)
CREATIVE PUBLICATIONS
- “Disposition,” Finalist for the 54th New Millennium Writing Awards (Poetry)
- 2022 Emerging Voices Poetry Prize, Long-listed
- “We Have Grown Feral,” CALYX 33.3 (2022).
- “Preservation,” forthcoming in South Dakota Review, 56.4 (2022).
- “Petrichor,” forthcoming in South Dakota Review, 56.4 (2022).
- “New World Sparrow,” forthcoming in South Dakota Review, 56.4 (2022).
- “Like Wildfire,” forthcoming in South Dakota Review, 56.4 (2022).
- 2021 James Hearst Poetry Prize, North American Review, Finalist
- “This Bird is Trying to Break Your Heart,” North American Review 306.1 (2021): 16.
- 50th New Millennium Writing Awards (2020), Honorable Mention.
- “Widow's Weeds." Poetry. forthcoming in New Ohio Review 29 (2021).
- “Anatomy." Poetry. The Halcyone Review. 3.2 (2020): 20.
- “Grasslands." Poetry. The Halcyone Review 3.2 (2020): 32.
- "Pine for Me." Poetry reprint. South Dakota in Poems. Ed. Christine Stewart-Nunez. South Dakota State Poetry Society (2020): 96.
- “Soapstone.” Poetry, CALYX, forthcoming.
- “Point Lonely.” Short Fiction. South Dakota Magazine, January/February (2017): 96-100.
- “Hush.” Poetry. Kindred 6 (2014).
- "Take me.” Poetry. Kindred 5 (2014).
- “Macroura.” Poetry. Kindred 4 (2013).
- “In the Beginning.” Poetry. Midwestern Gothic 9 (2013): 161-162.
- “Dress Your Dog Like Karl Rove; Or, The Day the Chaise Longue Came to Town.” Fiction. Scissors and Spackle 8 (2012): 59-63.
- “Chimera.” Poetry. 605 Magazine 2.3 (2010): 31.
- “The Last Supper.” Creative Nonfiction. 605 Magazine 2.3 (2010): 30-31.
- “On Finding Home.” Creative Nonfiction. Life on the Farm and Ranch: South Dakota Stories. Ed. John E. Miller. Brookings: South Dakota Humanities Council, 2009. 80-82.
- “Kenneth and Hilda: The Beginning.” Creative Nonfiction. Life on the Farm and Ranch: South Dakota Stories. Ed. John E. Miller. Brookings: South Dakota Humanities Council, 2009. 45-46.
- “The Hazards of Diet and Exercise.” Short fiction. The MacGuffin 24.3 (2008): 14-21.
- “Point Lonely.” Short fiction. Paddlefish 2 (2008): 29-36.
- “I’m on Fire, You’re on Fire: A Modern Love Story.” Short fiction. Backwards City Review 4.1 (2008): 20-34.
CRITICAL PUBLICATIONS
- “Frankensteining the Lines: An Exercise in Scraps.” Article solicited by the South Dakota State Poetry Society, 2018.
- “The Poetics of a Cyclic Directed Graph,” Courtney Huse Wika and Dan May. Bridges Conference Proceedings, 2017. (Peer-reviewed article)
- “Galaxies Containing Infinite Worlds: Poetry from Finite Projective Planes,” Courtney Huse Wika and Dan May. Bridges Conference Proceedings, 2015. (Peer-reviewed article)
- “Beyond Bella: Rewriting Love and the Female Hero in Young Adult Literature.” Voice of Youth Advocates. 35.1 (2012): 26-28.
- “She’s Not Me: Confrontations with Monstrous Doubles in Adolescent Fantasy Texts.” Voice of Youth Advocates. 34.3 (2011): 234-238.
- Huse Wika, Courtney, and Susan Wolfe. “Policing the Rift: The Monstrous and the Uncanny in Torchwood.” Illuminating Torchwood: Essays on Narrative, Character and Sexuality in the BBC Series. Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy 21. Ed. Andrew Ireland. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 30-42.
- “Echoes from the Digital Abyss: Current Challenges in the Writing Classroom.” Voice of Youth Advocates. 32.1 (2009): 24-25.
