Poetry & Creative Writing

A passion for writing has been a continuous presence in Cierra’s life, beginning in childhood and endlessly taking new shape. She had a number of pieces featured in Teen Ink while she was in high school. While an undergraduate at Webster University, she briefly studied under Missouri poet laureate David Clewell. Recently, her poetry has been featured in several additions of Bad Jacket, and she will also be featured in UMSL’s forthcoming publication of Bellerive.

In 2016, she self-published her first full-length collection of poetry, The Horse and the Water. It is available on Amazon, and at local St. Louis merchant Dunaway Books. She is currently working on her second collection of poetry, The Casket and the Peephole, which is expected to be published in the Spring of 2020. She is also working on a yet-to-be-titled collection of letters to various socially and historically prominent archetypal femme fatales, as well as actively developing her first nonfiction book.

Cierra can be intermittently found performing at both open- and closed-mic readings around St. Louis throughout the year, and always looks forward to meeting and networking with other writers, agents, and publishers.

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Poetry & Prose

“Things aren’t all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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my latest Book:

Darken Your Door, 2023

Cierra’s first full-length collection of poetry and prose, The Horse and the Water, was published in 2017. Buy your copy today on Amazon, or at local retailer Dunaway Books. Her second collected, Darken Your Door, was published in affiliation with Back of the Class Press in 2023 and is also available on Amazon and at Dunaway Books.

(She can periodically be found doing readings at Dunaway Books, so keep an eye on their events page, and elsewhere around St. Louis.)

While at Webster University, Cierra studied under Missouri poet laureate David Clewell as well as California Book Award recipient Steve Lattimore. Cierra’s poems have been featured in publications such as: Bad Jacket, High Shelf Press, Sheila-Na-Gig, Dime Show Review, Sheepshead Review, and Bellerive.