COURTNEY A. HUSE WIKA

EDUCATION
  • University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, Ph.D. in English with a specialization in Creative Writing
  • University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, M.A. in English with a specialization in Creative Writing 
  • Augustana University, Sioux Falls, SD, B.A. in English and Philosophy, May 2003

CURRENT PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION 
  • Professor, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD 2022
  • ​Distinguished Faculty, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD 2019
  • ​Associate Professor of English, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD Fall 2017-2021
  • Director of the University Honors Program and Assistant Professor of English, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD Fall 2013-Spring 2018
  • Director of the Writing Center and Assistant Professor of English, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD Fall 2010-Fall 2013

BOOK PUBLICATIONS
Perch. Baton Rouge: Anchor and Plume Press, 2016. Chapbook.
 CREATIVE PUBLICATIONS AND AWARDS 
  • Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award, 2025, Poets & Writers
  • “After Twenty-Two Years I Mistake My Biological Father for a Stranger at Reptile Gardens, A Premier Roadside Tourist Trap,” One Page Poetry Anthology 2023. Charity anthology for the World Wildlife Fund and Oceana.
  • 2023 Rising Poet Prize, Palette Poetry, long-listed
  • “Disposition,” Finalist for the 54th New Millennium Writing Awards (Poetry)
  • 2022 Emerging Voices Poetry Prize, Long-listed
  • “We Have Grown Feral,” CALYX 33.3 (2022).
  • “Preservation,” South Dakota Review, 56.4 (2022).
  • “Petrichor,” South Dakota Review, 56.4 (2022).
  • “New World Sparrow,” South Dakota Review, 56.4 (2022).
  • “Like Wildfire,” South Dakota Review, 56.4 (2022).
  • “Museum of Roadside Trash,” Oakwood, (2022): 85, solicited.
  • “Butcherbird,” Oakwood, (2022): 86, solicited.
  • “Homecoming,” Oakwood, (2022): 83-84, solicited.
  • 2021 James Hearst Poetry Prize, North American Review, Finalist
  • “This Bird is Trying to Break Your Heart,” North American Review 306.1 (2021): 16.
  • 50th New Millennium Writing Awards (2020), Honorable Mention.
  • “Widow's Weeds." Poetry. New Ohio Review 29 (2021).
  • “Anatomy."  Poetry.  The Halcyone Review. 3.2 (2020): 20.
  • “Grasslands." Poetry.  The Halcyone Review 3.2 (2020): 32.
  • "Pine for Me." Poetry reprint.  South Dakota in Poems. Ed. Christine Stewart-Nunez. South Dakota State Poetry Society (2020): 96.
  • “Soapstone.” Poetry, CALYX 31.3(2020): 90. 
  • “Point Lonely.” Short Fiction. South Dakota Magazine, January/February (2017): 96-100.
  • “Hush.” Poetry. Kindred 6 (2014).
  • "Take me.” Poetry. Kindred 5 (2014).
  • “Macroura.” Poetry. Kindred 4 (2013).
  • “In the Beginning.” Poetry. Midwestern Gothic 9 (2013): 161-162.
  • “Dress Your Dog Like Karl Rove; Or, The Day the Chaise Longue Came to Town.” Fiction. Scissors and Spackle 8 (2012): 59-63.
  • “Chimera.” Poetry. 605 Magazine 2.3 (2010): 31.
  • “The Last Supper.” Creative Nonfiction. 605 Magazine 2.3 (2010): 30-31.
  • “On Finding Home.” Creative Nonfiction. Life on the Farm and Ranch: South Dakota Stories. Ed. John E. Miller. Brookings: South Dakota Humanities Council, 2009. 80-82.
  • “Kenneth and Hilda: The Beginning.” Creative Nonfiction. Life on the Farm and Ranch: South Dakota Stories. Ed. John E. Miller. Brookings: South Dakota Humanities Council, 2009. 45-46.
  • “The Hazards of Diet and Exercise.” Short fiction. The MacGuffin 24.3 (2008): 14-21. 
  • “Point Lonely.” Short fiction. Paddlefish 2 (2008): 29-36. 
  • “I’m on Fire, You’re on Fire: A Modern Love Story.” Short fiction. Backwards City Review 4.1 (2008): 20-34. 
CRITICAL PUBLICATIONS 
  • “Frankensteining the Lines:  An Exercise in Scraps.”  Article solicited by the South Dakota State Poetry Society, 2018.
  • “The Poetics of a Cyclic Directed Graph,” Courtney Huse Wika and Dan May. Bridges Conference Proceedings, 2017. (Peer-reviewed article)
  • “Galaxies Containing Infinite Worlds: Poetry from Finite Projective Planes,” Courtney Huse Wika and Dan May. Bridges Conference Proceedings, 2015. (Peer-reviewed article)
  • “Beyond Bella: Rewriting Love and the Female Hero in Young Adult Literature.” Voice of Youth Advocates. 35.1 (2012): 26-28. 
  • “She’s Not Me: Confrontations with Monstrous Doubles in Adolescent Fantasy Texts.” Voice of Youth Advocates. 34.3 (2011): 234-238.
  • Huse Wika, Courtney, and Susan Wolfe. “Policing the Rift: The Monstrous and the Uncanny in Torchwood.” Illuminating Torchwood: Essays on Narrative, Character and Sexuality in the BBC Series. Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy 21. Ed. Andrew Ireland. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 30-42.
  • “Echoes from the Digital Abyss: Current Challenges in the Writing Classroom.” Voice of Youth Advocates. 32.1 (2009): 24-25.