Chelsea Krieg
she/her/hers
Administrative Director, MFA Program
Administrative Director, MFA Program
Department of English
Tompkins Hall 276
cekrieg@ncsu.eduBio
Chelsea Krieg is a poet, educator, and administrator. At NC State, Krieg serves as the Administrative Director of the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing. Krieg’s research interests include citizen science, ecopoetry, and open pedagogy. Her poetry collection, Everything is Water, will debut with Texas Review Press in spring 2026.
She teaches courses in composition; poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction writing; and ecopoetics.
Education
MFA Poetry North Carolina State Univerity 2016
B.A. English, Creative Writing University of Mary Washington 2010
Publications
- In Which Daedalus Does Not Build Wings , Fairy Tale Review (2025)
- Before I Knew What it Meant , Writing the Land: Virginia Anthology (2024)
- Strategies to empower students through open pedagogy and citizen science , International Journal of Open Educational Resources (2024)
- To Be Both , Writing the Land: Virginia Anthology (2024)
- Marriage Counseling Without Teeth , New South (2023)
- Self-Portrait as Mother as Nature Documentary , Gulf Coast (2023)
- When My Therapist Asks if I’m Happy , New South (2023)
- Anytime Firecrackers , The Southern Poetry Anthology (2022)
- Callinectes Sapidus , The Southern Poetry Anthology (2022)
- I dreamed your name was River , The Southern Poetry Anthology (2022)