Department of English

K. Blasco Solér is completing a PhD in English with research interests in environmental humanities, contemporary North American and Caribbean poetry, post-colonial studies, and cultural memory. She is concurrently working on a women’s studies certificate with interests in eco, posthuman, and transnational feminisms. Recent conference paper presentations include “Thriving in the Ruins: Interspecies Assemblages,” “Teaching Science Writing,” and “Bioluminescence Signaling Resurgence in The Light Pirate and Claire of the Sea Light” (co-written with UF PhD student Caylee Weintraub). K’s writing and teaching are informed by an upbringing in Alaska and a background in science writing. Classes taught at UF include Survey of American Literature, Advanced Fiction Writing, and Argument and Persuasion. K holds a BA in editorial journalism from the University of Washington and an MFA in creative writing and poetics from Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School, where she co-taught courses in eco- and embodied poetics. Her master’s thesis explores the extermination and reemergence of the gray wolf in the Southern Rockies. Her most recent poetry collection was a finalist for the 2023 Colorado Prize. The first sequence of the collection, “wolf mutter” was selected for publication following Finishing Line Press’ 2024 New Women’s Voices chapbook contest.