Lucas Bailor

Lucas Bailor is currently working on his MFA in Writing at UC San Diego. He has two years of experience as a teaching assistant at UCSD and has experience lecturing various courses at CSU Monterey Bay. He is also currently a poetry reader for Bodega Magazine and Gigantic Sequins, where he reads and votes on poetry submissions in consideration for publications.

• MFA In writing, UC San Diego (in process)

• MFA In English, CSU Northridge, 2017

• BA in Humanities and Communication, CSU Monterey Bay, 2015

• Teaching Assistant, UC San Diego

  • LTWR 8B: Poetry (2 sections: Fall 2018)
  • LTWR 8A: Fiction (2 sections: Winter 2019)
  • LTWR 8C: Non-Fiction (2 Sections: Spring 2019)
  • CAT 125 (2 sections: Fall 2019)
  • CAT 2 (2 sections: Winter 2020)

•  Lecturer, CSU Monterey Bay 
  • HCOM 312: Cooperative Argumentation (1 section: Fall 2017)
  • HCOM 212: Dialogue and Deliberation (1 section: Fall 2017)
  • HCOM 213: Intro to Communication Ethics (1 section: Spring 2018)

• “from Renting” -Poem published in Best Buds Collective.(https://best-buds.rocks/journal/lucas-bailor)                                                                    
• “To the Year I Played Baby Jesus at a Month Old” -Poem published in Kanstellation.(https://www.kanstellation.com/babJesus.html)                                                               
• “Sun Beholds Me” - Poem published in Memoir Mixtapes (https://memoirmixtapes.com/memoir-mixtapes-vol-8-track-13/)                                                                                                           
• “Hallway” and 2 excerpts of “from lean”- Three poems published by Nice Cage. (https://www.nicecage.com/issues/007/bailor.html)                                                                   
• Review of Sophie Jasson-Holt’s Unfold the Chaparral - Published by Glass: A Journal of Poetry. (http://www.glass-poetry.com/journal/reviews/bailor-holt.html)                                                   
• “from lean” - Poem published in FIVE:2:ONE’s #thesideshow.(http://five2onemagazine.com/from-lean-by-lucas-bailor/)                                                             
• “Lucas Recommends: ‘Horsin’ Around’ by Prefab Sprout” -Essay published by Memoir Mixtapes.(https://medium.com/memoir-mixtapes/lucas-recommends-horsin-around-by-prefab-sprout-e3a9122309e4)                                                                                                                   
• “How I” -Poem published Emerging Artist Alliance of Monterey’s SALTWATER Zine.                   
• “Weary” and “inland” - Two poems published by Bone & Ink Press.(https://www.boneandinkpress.com/single-post/2018/06/26/Two-Poems-by-Lucas-Bailor)           
• “bible garage” - Hybrid piece published in Vol. 24 of Thin Air Magazine; won third place in the Gas Station Prize, a hybrid  contest.                                                                                               
• Review of Trish Hopkinson’s Footnote -Published by Glass: A Journal of Poetry.(http://www.glass-poetry.com/journal/reviews/bailor-hopkinson.html)                                 
• “The Years From You To Me” and “a cycle” -Poems published in Issue 4 of Hypnopomp.(https://hypnopompblog.wordpress.com/2018/04/15/2-poems-by-lucas-bailor-poetry/)