Past Chair, Cedar City
Danielle Beazer Dubrasky’s poetry has been published in Terrain.org, Pilgrimage, Sugar House Review, Salt Front, Cave Wall, Contrary Magazine, and Quill&Parchment. She is the author of the chapbook “Ruin and Light” selected by Anabiosis Press and a limited edition art book “Invisible Shores” published through Red Butte Press. She is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Southern Utah University where she directs an Ecopoetry and Place writing conference. She has conducted poetry writing workshops on Metaphors and Symbolic Landscapes and led writing workshops through the National Parks. The former poetry editor for Contemporary Rural Social Work journal, she has developed a curriculum of poetry writing exercises with a research team to be used in poetry therapy groups.
Danielle has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, a two-time recipient of the Utah Arts Council first place award in poetry, and is currently the director of the Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values at Southern Utah University. She has received the following awards at SUU: “Award of Distinguished Scholar” and “Achievement in Experiential Learning Award.” She directs The Art of Literature program, a partnership between Southern Utah University and the Utah Humanities Council that brings writers to the southern Utah community and to the classroom. She also developed and directs a biannual Creative Writing/Teaching Conference for high school teachers at SUU. Danielle grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia, but has lived the last 20 years in southern Utah. (Term 2 ends 2025)