Biography
Avery completed her dissertation in December of 2020. She utilizes a framework of ethical philosophy to consider how three 21st century collections of documentary poetry propose poetics that exceed official documentation as they record and respond to violence in the exclusionary conditions of American citizenship.
In 2013, Avery graduated from Willamette University with a BA in English and Music. She earned a graduate certificate in Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies in 2016 and an MA in English in 2017, both from the University of Iowa. Her Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa was completed in December of 2020.
Avery currently manages the Employee and Community Education program at Goodwill Industries of the Columbia Willamette. She is excited to return to academia as an adjunct instructor of English at Willamette, where she and her students will explore some complexities of place and identity through literature.