Alisa Slaughter MFA
Professor
Creative Writing, Faculty Experts
Education
- M.A., comparative literature, University of Arizona
- MFA, fiction writing, Warren Wilson College
Professional Background
Alisa Slaughter’s essays, short fiction, and translations have appeared in Flyway, Terrain.org, The Mersey Review, and The Santa Monica Review. She co-translated Spy for an Unknown Country: Essays and Lectures by Merab Mamardashvili (ibidem-Verlag, 2021). Her short story collection, Bad Habitats, was published by Gold Line Press in 2013. She is a contributor, co-editor, and translator for Both Sides Face East: Durable Words, the first volume in a three-part series on Ukraine, published by Academic Studies Press in spring 2025.
With colleagues Dr. Dan Klooster (Environmental Studies) and Dr. Jennifer Tilton (Race and Ethnic Studies), Professor Slaughter is co-developer of the 'Heat Resilience and Land Conservancy in the Inland Empire' project funded by the Geospatial, Climate, and Sustainability Initiative. Slaughter’s work on this project integrates environmental narrative and creative writing with geospatial justice. Discover more at the Geospatial, Climate, and Sustainability Initiative.
Areas of Expertise
- Creative nonfiction
- Fiction