Professor Pen Pearson teaches introduction to creative writing, poetry writing, fiction writing, and creative nonfiction writing, as well as early American literature, literary criticism, and composition. Pen also advises Honors students with creative theses. She currently serves on the campus-wide assessment committee and the three-year tenure-review committee for the College of Arts and Sciences.
Pen’s publications include One Wing Should Float (2023), winner of the South Dakota State Poetry Society’s chapbook contest, Bloomsbury’s Late Rose (2019), a historical novel about Edwardian poet Charlotte Mew, Poetry as Liturgy (2010), and Trespass to Chattel (2009). Her poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction have also appeared in various anthologies and journals.