Education
California Institute of the Arts.
California Institute of the Arts.
Her most recent chapbook is. Her poems and essays have appeared in Vela Magazine, The Citron Review, Blood Orange Review, Red Paint Hill Poetry Journal, Sugar House Review, Composite Arts Review, The Coachella Review, The Oklahoma Review, and elsewhere. She is the poetry editor for Zone 3 Magazine.
Spofford grew up in Newcastle, California and Fort Collins, Colorado.
She received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Colorado State University (2006), an Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts (2009), and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Southern Mississippi (2013). In 2013, she participated in the Noatak National Preserve residency, making her first trek to Alaska.
She is currently an Assistant Professor of Poetry at Austin Peay State University.