Autumn Hayes is a freelance writer, educator, and poet. Her work ranges from sci-fi pilgrimage poems to contemporary sonnets, movie reviews, pop-culture pieces, and choreopoems in Greek. Her love for language experiments and mashups comes from a lifetime of traveling between cultures and crossing borders. A former dancer and athlete, she has read, performed, and presented in Australia and various cities in Texas.
Autumn grew up near Houston, bathed in the sounds of Vietnamese, Spanish, French, and seemingly every kind of English. (Plus humidity. That’s a language.) Over the years, she has taught reading, writing, math, public speaking, drama, and vocational welding in Los Angeles, Houston, and the Mississippi Delta.
She holds an MFA in poetry from Texas State University. However, she began to write poems while still a teenager at the University of Southern California. When she takes a break from words, she usually has her feet on the road or her hands in some soil. For more information on her writing and experience, follow her on social media or check out her work and CV online.