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Colby College

Literature Arts and Culture Creative Writing and Poetry English and Literature Literature

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5.05/4/2026

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Arisa White is Associate Professor of English (Creative Writing) and Creative Writing Director at Colby College, where she joined the faculty in 2018 and received tenure. She previously served as a visiting scholar at San Francisco State University’s The Poetry Center, developing a digital special collection on Black Women Poets in the Poetry Center Archives. White earned an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is an alumna of Sarah Lawrence College. A Cave Canem fellow, she has held residencies, fellowships, and scholarships from The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, Juniper Summer Writing Institute, Headlands Center for the Arts, Port Townsend Writers’ Conference, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Hedgebrook, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Prague Summer Program, Fine Arts Work Center, and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She serves on the community advisory board of the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance and created the Beautiful Things Project, which curates poetic collaborations rooted in Black queer women’s ways of knowing.