Sara "Ezsi" Waters

Waters, Sarah Eszi
PhD Candidate, Graduate Instructor
04 Tate Hall
Education

BA in English with Honors, Indiana University, Bloomington

MFA in Creative Writing, Indiana University, Bloomington 

PhD in English/Creative Writing, University of Missouri (expected 2029)

Research and Teaching

Areas of Study:

  • Creative Writing
  • Ecopoetics
Bio

Pronouns: they/them

Sara “Eszi” Waters is a poet, essayist, and parent at The University of Missouri working towards their PhD in English/Creative Writing. Eszi’s work has been published in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Cathexis Northwest Press, Shelia-Na-Gig, and elsewhere. Their essays have been longlisted for a C&R Press Publication Prize, and their poems were longlisted for the Palette Poetry Love & Eros Prize. Their work explores connection to place, deep ecology, trauma and lineage, absurdity and estrangement. They are particularly interested in hybrid genre writing.