John Kneisley (he/him) teaches courses in the English department and for CSU's Green and Gold Initiative. This past spring ('25), he taught a new Green and Gold course called "To the Underworld and Back: Questions on the Nature of Death and Renewal," and is developing another for next spring about silence and slow time. At CSU, he has also taught E311: Intermediate Poetry Workshop, E210: Beginning Creative Writing, CO300: Writing Arguments, and CO150: College Composition.

John's writing interests include death, mythology, and memory, his current book project exploring death as a site of caregiving, transition, and dream, in tandem with the more-than-human world. His recent poetry appears or is forthcoming in Orion, Ecotone, Poet Lore, EcoTheo Review, North American Review, Quarterly West, Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere. John was recently named a Peter Taylor Fellow for the 2025 Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, and has also been supported with scholarships from the Community of Writers Workshop in Olympic Valley, CA and the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference.