Sigman Byrd, Ph.D.
- Associate Teaching Professor
STAD 260-A
T, Th 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm and by appointment
- BA, Liberal Arts, Sarah Lawrence College
- MFA English, University of Iowa
- PhD, Literature and Creative Writing, University of Utah
- Creative Nonfiction
- Technical, Professional, and Community Writing
Sigman Byrd has a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing and has published two books of poetry, "Wake Up, Sleepwalker" (Conundrum Press, 2014) and "Under the Wanderer’s Star" (Marsh Hawk Press, 2006), which won the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize and the University of Colorado’s Eaton Faculty Award. He has published published numerous poems in magazines, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Antioch Review, American Literary Review, American Poetry Review, Crazyhorse, Georgia Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Plume, Prairie Schooner, Poetry, Poetry Daily, Southern Review, Southwest Review, Verse Daily, and many others. He has won a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Dobie-Paisano Fellowship from the Texas Institute of Letters and the University of Texas, and received a special mention for the Pushcart Prize in poetry.
Sigman has been teaching in higher ed for 32 years and at the University of Colorado in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric for 23 of those years. For having a positive impact on students' lives, he won CU's Marinus Smith Award. He has also been a Zen practitioner for 17 years and leads a weekly Zen meditation group on campus, encouraging more mindfulness practices at home, at work, and in school.
- WRTG 3020 Topics in Writing: Narrative and the Self
- WRTG 3040 Writing on Business and Society
- WRTG 2020 Introduction to Creative Nonfiction
- WRTG 3020 Topics in Writing: Advanced Creative Nonfiction
- WRTG 1150 First-Year Writing and Rhetoric