Randall W. Harrell

Randall W. Harrell is a poet-teacher based in Atlanta, Georgia. Originally from a small town in Southwest Georgia, his work explores the intersections of body, memory, trauma, and transformation. He earned his PhD in English with a research focus in American literature and Indigenous studies. His creative and scholarly work often move in parallel, confronting the inherited structures of grief, survival, and belonging. He teaches American literature and multi-modal composition, always trying to highlight voices victim to cultural and historical erasure. His current research deals largely with 19th-Century American literaure, trauma and temporality, and the pre-Removal print history of the Cherokee Phoenix, the official newspaper of the Cherokee Nation. He lives just outside of Atlanta, GA with his wife and two kids and loves music, the outdoors, and education (broadly construed).