Department of English Language and Literature
Directory
Liz Countryman
Title: | Assistant Professor McCausland Faculty Fellow |
Department: | English Language and Literature College of Arts and Sciences |
Email: | countrym@mailbox.sc.edu |
Phone: | 803-576-5891 |
Office: | HUO 515 |
Resources: | English Language and Literature |

Education
PhD, University of Houston, 2012
MFA, University of Maryland, 2006
Specialization
• Creative Writing
• Contemporary poetry
Courses
ENGL 200 Creative Writing, Voice, and Community
ENGL 286 Poetry
ENGL 360 Introduction to Creative Writing
ENGL 460 Advanced Writing
ENGL 464 Poetry Workshop
ENGL 600 Seminar in Verse Composition
Publications
Books
• Green Island, Tupelo Press, forthcoming 2024
• A Forest Almost, Subito Press, 2017
Selected Recent Journal Publications
• "A Clearing." ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment (forthcoming).
• “Circular.” Denver Quarterly 54:2 (2020).
• “Leave.” Crazyhorse 97 (2020).
• “Erasure Poem.” Lana Turner 12 (2019).
• “Narrative Poem.” The Volta: Heir Apparent 48 (2019).
• “Dresser.” American Poetry Review 48.5 (2019).
• “Forest.” Kenyon Review Vol. XL No. 3 (2018).
• “Subway Ride, Spring 2002.” Poetry CCIX (2016).
• “The End Is Always Sudden.” American Poetry Review 45.3 (2016).
Other Information
Editor (with Samuel Amadon) of Oversound, a poetry journal: (www.oversoundpoetry.com)