John Kneisley (he/him) teaches courses in the English department and for CSU's Green and Gold Initiative. In recent years, he designed and taught the following Green and Gold courses: "To the Underworld and Back: Questions on the Nature of Death and Renewal" and "Gardening the Quiet Mind: Questions on Silence and Slow Time." His English courses include E412: Advanced Poetry Workshop, E311: Intermediate Poetry Workshop, E210: Beginning Creative Writing, CO300: Writing Arguments, and CO150: College Composition.

John's writing interests include death, mythology, memory, and time, his current poetry manuscript 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, Seneca Review, 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.