Casey L. Ford, MFA
Instructor of English - Creative Writing, Poetry
Casey L. Ford teaches the spring creative writing workshop for beginning poets (ENGL 3350). She has also taught the intermediate workshop (ENGL 4344/5344) and all levels of first-year composition. She works full-time in the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning as Assistant Director of Faculty Success.
As service to the department and university, Casey is co-editor with Dr. Adam Nemmers of Review of Texas Books; frequently judges poetry submissions for Pulse, LU's student-run literary magazine; co-sponsors the Gamma Nu Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society, with Dr. Amy Smith; and sits on the the board of Phi Beta Delta International Honor Society, LU Beta Xi Chapter.
Her forthcoming manuscript, Shoreline Devotional, will be published by Woodhall Press in Spring 2026. Casey's poems have been published by several journals in Texas and beyond, and she was nominated in 2022 by Last Stanza Poetry Journal for a prestigious Pushcart Prize.
Courses Taught
ENGL 0301 - Intermediate Reading and Writing
ENGL 1301, 1302 - Composition
ENGL 3350 - Creative Writing: Poetry
ENGL 4344, 5344 - Special Topics: Poetry Workshop
Books
Shoreline Devotional, Norwalk, CT: Woodhall Press, forthcoming Spring 2026.Poetry
“Sonnenizio and Kalanchoe Leaf Study,” Sweet: A Literary Confection, 2024“Second Date: Café with Small Chairs,” Rogue Agent, no. 112, 2024.
"Elegy after Ixtoc I," Delta Poetry Review 5(15), edited by Susan Swartout, 2023
"Postmortem," Ocotillo Review 7(2), edited by Tony Burnett, 2023
“Elegy for a Thousand Books Drowned in Floodwater,” Last Stanza Poetry Journal, edited by Jenny Kalahar, 2021 (nominated for 2022 Pushcart Prize)
“Kavod,” Texas Poetry Ballots, edited by Laurence Musgrove, https://www.txpoetryballots.com/ 2020
“As Best I Can Recall,” “Shoreline Devotional,” “Offices of the Wraparound Porch,” and “Thirst,” Poetry by Texas College Students, edited by Gretchen Johnson, Lamar University Literary Press, 2015
“Heavy Equipment,” Concho River Review, Fall 2015
“Country Crystal,” “Six Movements of My Spine,” Amarillo Bay, edited by Katherine Hoerth, Summer 2015
“As Best I Can Recall: Sonnets from Four Countries,” CCTE Studies, edited by Moumin Quazi, 2015
Service, Experience, and Certifications
Editor, QEP (Math to a Degree) Writing Committee, 2024-present.
Director, Lamar University Writing Center, January 2023-December 2024
Special membership, LU graduate faculty, 2023-24.
Thesis Editor, College of Arts and Sciences, 2021-present
Member, COAS Strategic Planning Committee for Research, 2022-23
Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars, board member since 2021
ACUE Effective College Instruction / Effective Practice Framework, certified 2020
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Communications Coordinator, 2018-2022
Regular Contributor, Cadence, Lamar University Alumni Association, 2016-present.
Member, First Year Writing Pedagogy Group, Lamar University English and Modern Languages, Spring 2019-present
Thesis and dissertation specialist, Lamar University College of Graduate Studies, 2017-18
Content editor, Lamar University Web Communications, 2016-17
Graduate teaching assistant/Adjunct, Lamar University English and Modern Languages, 2015-18
Teacher of English for Adult Speakers of Other Languages, Cambridge CELTA, University of Texas at Austin, Centre # US655, Certificate #ccpf585079
Consultant, Lamar University Writing Center, 2014-15