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Was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.


Fablesque was also featured in 鈥溾 by Christine Hume in Electric Literature on January, 5, 2021 and in Strange Horizons鈥 鈥溾.


Read from her second poetry collection, Fablesque, at Baltimore鈥檚 with Lesley Wheeler on December 13, 2020. She also read in with Rosa Alcal谩, Susan Briante, giovanni singleton, and Carmen Gim茅nez Smith on December 16, 2020.


Read from her recently published poetry collection, Fablesque, and conversed with Andrea Lawlor at the on October 29, 2020. She read from Fablesque and new work with Elizabeth A. I. Powell at the on November 11, 2020.


Presented her paper 鈥淧layset: The Sonnet as Enabling Constraint鈥 at the Sonnets from the American Symposium on October 2, 2020. She read from her recently published poetry collection, Fablesque, at Johns Hopkins University鈥檚 Film and Media Studies program on September 24, 2020.


Gave a public lecture titled "Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Pioneer in Psychiatry"  to mark the awarding of National Historic Landmark status to "Frieda's Cottage," Fromm-Reichmann's home and office at Chestnut Lodge Hospital (Rockville, MD) for more than 20 years and an iconic place in the history of psychiatry. Recording at: 

Serin D. Houston's book, Imagining Seattle: Social Values in Urban Governance, was honored at the American Association of Geographers conference in April 2021 at a book celebration event and an "Author Meets her Readers" session. 


Serin D. Houston gave a talk on March 25, 2021 for the Zube Lecture Series at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning. Her talk was titled, 'Unsettling Whiteness in Neighborhood Planning: Social Justice Efforts in Seattle, WA." 


Imagining Seattle: Social Values in Urban Governance, by Serin D. Houston, is one of three featured books in Seattle University's 2020-2021 "Arts and Leadership" book series. This year's series focuses on anti-racist and decolonial arts in Seattle. During a two day event in December 2020, Houston gave a virtual talk and participated in a mapping workshop based on her book and participants' experiences in Seattle. 


Serin Houston鈥檚 book, Imagining Seattle: Social Values in Urban Governance, was profiled in the Maxwell Perspective Publication.