Melisa (Misha) Cahnmann-Taylor

Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor is professor of TESOL & World Language Education at the University of Georgia. She is the winner of Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prizes, a Leeway Poetry Grant, and a Fulbright award. She is the author of one book poetry, Imperfect Tense (Whitepoint Press, 2016), and co-author of two books on education, Teachers Act Up: Creating Multicultural Learning Communities Through Theatre and Arts-Based Research in Education. Her 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, and TESOL Journal, among others. She is the poetry editor for Anthropology and Humanism, the journal of the Society for Humanistic Anthropology, and judges their annual poetry contest.