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