Writer / Editor / Teacher

photo by Emily Townsend

Tennessee was named a 2022 Gregory Djanikian poetry scholar by Adroit Journal. She holds an MFA from North Carolina State University and a BFA from Stephen F. Austin State University. Tennessee has been featured in Best New Poets, POETRY, THRUSH, and elsewhere. She has work forthcoming from Nimrod, Fugue, and Arkansas International. She lives and teaches in Houston. 

Selected Poems

Third Coast: “How Not To” (forthcoming)

Mid-American Review: “Rabbit Test” (forthcoming )

The Southampton Review: “At a Party with Buzz Aldrin” & “Anti-Pastoral” (print) Vol. XVII, Issue 31

The McNeese Review: “Lyric Sister” (print) Spring 2023, Vol. 60

Southern Humanities Review: “Sometimes, Farm Boy” http://www.southernhumanitiesreview.com/5534-sometimes-farm-boy-by-tennessee-hill.html

Arkansas International Journal: “Father in the Pasture” (print) Spring 2022

Nimrod International Journal: “A Lifetime Trapped in Peach Brine” (print) Spring 2022, Vol. 65, No. 2

Conduit: “At the Wedding, An Old Flame Tells Me” (print) Summer 2022, No. 32

THRUSH: “WE BUY BROKEN GOLD” https://www.thrushpoetryjournal.com/march-2022-tennessee-hill.html

Adroit Journal: “Crater Heart,” “Train Through Memory,” & “Banquet Scene” https://theadroitjournal.org/issue-forty-one/tennessee-hill/

fugue: “My Boy, My Boy” (print) Summer 2002, Issue 62

POETRY: “Driving Home from Keyworths” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/156064/driving-home-from-keyworths

Beloit Poetry Journal & Verse Daily: “Night Coyote” http://www.versedaily.org/2020/nightcoyote.shtml

Porter House Review Editor’s Prize in Poetry 2020: “Cricket Noon” https://porterhousereview.org/articles/cricket-noon/

minnesota review Fall 2020: “May Babies” (print) Issue 95

Best New Poets 2018: “Stripling’s Florist Pharmacy” (print)


Selected Prose

Bellevue Literary Review: “Wiggler” forthcoming Spring 2024

The Boiler: “St. Michael’s Maryland” https://theboilerjournal.com/2018/09/24/tennessee-hill/

Sonora Review: “Spiking is for Parties” https://sonorareview.com/2019/07/16/spiking-parties-tennessee-hill/

Jenny Mag: “The Boy Who Thought He Was a Glass of Orange Juice” http://www.jennymag.org/spring-17-issue/the-boy-who-thought-he-was-a-glass-of-orange-juice

Get in Touch

Literary Agent: Elizabeth Pratt at Trellis Literary

Film & TV Rights: Ali Lefkowitz at Anonymous Content

Upcoming Events

Porter House Review: Nov 12th at Texas State

The Adroit Journal Issue 41 Release Reading