Cecilia Savala
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Mail code: 1401Campus: Tempe
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Student Information
Undergraduate StudentHealth Sciences (Healthy Lifestyles and Fitness Science)
Health Solutions
POETRY IN ANTHOLOGIES
Curating Home. Ed. Dan Burns. Kansas City, MO: Woodneath Press, 2021. “Lane Ends. Merge Left." 40.
Lift Every Voice: An Anthology of Poetry. Ed. Christine Taylor. Scotch Plains, NJ: Kissing Dynamite Poetry Press, 2019. “Elegy to a Woman’s Place in the Home.” 34-36.
POETRY IN LITERARY JOURNALS
Acentos Review. August 2025. “The Golden Ratio,” “Hijo, My Love Language is Letting You Win at Chess,” “This Body.”
Bear Review. Forthcoming. “Legs.”
Abstract Magazine: Contemporary Expressions. Summer 2024. “Billar,” “Epistle to My Cheekbones.”
South Florida Poetry Journal. August 2024. “Song.”
Poetry South. 15. December 2023. “Be Good.”
Lunch Ticket. Amuse-Bouche. November 2023. “Exercise.”
New Note Poetry. Autumn 2023. “Fat shaming—an erasure.”
Call Me Brackets. 10. Summer 2023. “Made of Iron,” “Advice From the Handbook of Empty Nesters,” “Epistle to My Belly.”
the Under Review. Summer 2023. “Ms. Olympia.”
Red Ogre Review. June 2023. “Asterisms.”
Thousand Languages Project. May 2023. “El Cuarto Donde Nací,” “Quinceañera."
Passengers Journal. 4:1. March 2023. “Cardio.”
Sheila-Na-Gig Online. 7.3. Spring 2023. “Less is More.”
Swamp Ape Review. 5. 2022. "Casamentero."
Drunk Monkeys. May 2021. "Math Poem," "Fight Song."
The Boiler. 32. July 2020 "Fit."
Mochila Review. 22. Spring 2020. "HIIT."
Roadrunner Review. 3. December 2019. "The Floods Dirtied Your Plains.”
Red Flag Poetry. 6.1. December 2019. "Trading Up."
the winnow. 1.3. November 2019. "Self Help."
Arcade. 12. May 2019. "Assumptions of Home."
Underground. 9.2. April 2019. "rebel."
Mangrove Journal. 14. Spring 2019. "The State of the Undone."
Arcade. 6. Fall 2012. "Grandmother," "Poem to Shane Jackson's New Girlfriend." 30-33.
INTERVIEWS AND REVIEWS
Hayden’s Ferry Review: The Dock. November 2022. “Review of C.T. Salazar’s Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking.”
Barrelhouse Reviews. July 2019. “Dark // Thing by Ashley M. Jones.”
New South Journal. May 2019. “Jehanne Dubrow’s Dots & Dashes."
Pleiades Press. April 2019. “Un-Othered Together: An Interview With Ashley M. Jones.”
ACADEMIC JOURNALS
Savala, Cecilia and Erin Adair-Hodges. “Comorbid Confessionalism: The Concurrence of Mental Illness and Poverty in Contemporary Post-Confessional Poetry.” The McNair Journal, vol 29, University of Central Missouri, 2021.
Courses
2026 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 302 | Business Writing |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
2026 Summer
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| ENG 302 | Business Writing |
2026 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 387 | Intermediate Workshop Poetry |
2025 Fall
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| ENG 251 | Reading as a Writer |
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 387 | Intermediate Workshop Poetry |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 387 | Intermediate Workshop Poetry |
2024 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 302 | Business Writing |
| ENG 302 | Business Writing |
| ENG 302 | Business Writing |
2024 Spring
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| ENG 594 | Conference and Workshop |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 594 | Conference and Workshop |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
2023 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 387 | Intermediate Workshop Poetry |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
Finalist, How to Be a Girl. Trio Award for First or Second Book. Trio House Press. 2024.
Virginia G. Piper Professional Development Fellowship. Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing. 2021, 2022, 2024.
Graduate Research Grant. ASU English Department. 2023.
Glendon and Kathryn Swarthout Award in Writing, 2nd place. “Made of Iron.” ASU. 2023.
Marvin Fisher Scholar. ASU English Department. 2023-2024
Graduate Programs Initiative Mini Grant for TA Planning Period. ASU English Department. 2023.
Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA) Excellence in Teaching Award. ASU. 2022.
Kundiman BIPOC Scholarship. Kundiman. 2022.
The College Student Leader Award. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. ASU. 2022.
University Graduate Fellowship, ASU. 2021.
Innovation in Creative Research Award. Center for Imagination in the Borderlands (CIB) ASU. 2021.
Hayden’s Ferry Review. Poetry editor, associate poetry editor. Arizona State University. 2021-present.
Arcade Magazine. Editor in chief, poetry editor, social media and web director, managing editor. University of Central Missouri. 2018-2021.
Pleiades Magazine, assistant poetry editor, University of Central Missouri 2018-2020.
Poetry Out Loud Regionals Judge, State Judge. Poetry Out Loud. 2025.
International Education Week Poetry Contest Judge. Maricopa Community College. 2024.
Desert Nights, Rising Stars Volunteer. Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing. 2024.
Canto Mundo Retreat Volunteer. Canto Mundo. 2024.
Assistant Director of Writing Programs. Department of English. ASU. 2023-2024.
Graduate Scholars of English Association (GSEA) Graduate Student Representative. ASU. 2022-2024.
Writing Programs Committee. Department of English. ASU. 2022-present.
MFA Reading Series Committee. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. ASU. 2022-2023.
Writer’s Place Award Judge. ASU. 2022-present.
Firecracker Awards Judge. Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP). 2021-present.