Aza
Pace
Poet. Educator. Editor.
About
Aza Pace is the author of Her Terrible Splendor, which won the Emma Howell Rising Poet Prize and was published by Willow Springs Books in March 2025. Her poems appear in The Southern Review, Copper Nickel, New Ohio Review, Tupelo Quarterly, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere, and she is the winner of two Academy of American Poets University Prizes. Aza holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Houston and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of North Texas.
Her Terrible Splendor
Winner of the 2025 Emma Howell Rising Poet Prize from Willow Springs Books​​
Interviews:
Select Poems
“A Godling of Living and Dying Explains Her Work." The Pinch Online.
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“A Godling of Living and Dying Tries Crafting.” Neologism Poetry Journal, issue 107.
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"Thirty-One." Willow Springs Magazine, issue 95.
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“Mine” and “A Landscape Misread.” Bennington Review, issue 14.​
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"Work." SWWIM.
"Calling." Elysium Review.
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"Painting Nocturnal Birds" & "Do You Know the Bur Oaks." Amsterdam Review.
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“Listening In.” The Florida Review.
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“Twelve Women in a Circle with Candles” and “Portrait of Nymphs Bathing.” The Southern Review and Best American Poetry "Pick of the Week."
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“Listing” and “Chickadee.” The Arkansas International.
“After Reading Sappho.” The Adroit Journal.
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"The Still Hours" and "How Should I Name My Friend?" Crazyhorse (now Swamp pink).
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“Welcome to the Solar System, Welcome to the Woods.” Southeast Review.
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“The Sorceress.” The South Carolina Review.
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“Postcards.” Indianapolis Review.
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“Finally, a New Gaze.” Tupelo Quarterly.
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“Mimic.” Bayou Magazine.
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"Sugar on My Tongue." Mudlark.
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"Chapel." Poets.org. Winner of the 2021 Voertman/Academy of American Poets University Prize.
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"Girls." Passages North.
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"Invisible Bodies." New Ohio Review.
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"My Father Asks What I'm Looking At." Poets.org Winner of the 2020 Voertman/Academy of American Poets University Prize.
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“Behind the Lattice.” Copper Nickel.
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"Definition in the Woods" and "Praise to the Nightjar." The Boiler.
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“The Day I Meet Circe,” “Q&A with Circe,” “The Day I Met Odysseus,” “Circe Recalls the Nymph Scylla,” and “Witch in My Forest: Fragments.” Mudlark.​
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Readings & Events
March 20 - Reading with Lesley Wheeler & David Baker at Two Dollar Radio | Columbus, OH
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June 6 - First Friday Reading at Patchouli Joe's Books & Indulgences | Denton, TX
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May 31 - Opening reception for "Visitation Triptych" at the LMFA | Longview, TX
May 9 - Willow Springs Book Launch Reading with Mathew Goldberg and Dan Morris | Zoom
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April 8 - Reading with Julia Kolchinsky at Ohio Wesleyan University | Delaware, OH
March 28 - Author signing with Willow Springs Books, AWP Conference | Los Angeles, CA
Contact Me
azapacewriter [at] gmail [dot] com