Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor

MELISA "Misha" CAHNMANN-TAYLOR, Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Georgia, is the author of a book of poetry, Imperfect Tense (White Point Press, 2016), and co-author of three books in education: Teachers Act Up: Creating Multicultural Learning Communities Through Theatre (Teachers College Press, 2010) and Arts-Based Research in Education, first and second editions (Routledge, 2008; Dec 2017). Winner of three NEA “Big Read” Grants (Robinson Jeffers, 2015; Edgar Allan Poe, 2016; Yu Hua, 2017), the Resplandor Artist/Scholar Residency in Guanajuato, MX, the Beckman award for "Professors Who Inspire Social Change," and a Fulbright for nine-month study of adult Spanish language acquisition in Oaxaca Mexico, she is also the poetry editor for Anthropology & Humanism and judges the journal’s annual ethnographic poetry competition. A graduate of the New England College low-residency MFA program and the University of Pennsylvania’s Educational Linguistics doctoral program, her numerous poems, essays, and articles about language learning have appeared in the Georgia Review, American Poetry Review, Women’s Quarterly Review, Cream City Review, Barrow Street, Puerto Del Sol, Mom Egg, Anthropology and Humanism, Language Arts, TESOL Journal, and many other literary and scholarly homes. She posts events and updates at her blog http://teachersactup.com. Dancing salsa with her husband and two children, she lives in Athens, GA. Photo credit: Sara Wise