About
Todd Copeland is the author of Like All Light (2022), winner of the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize from Gunpowder Press. His other works include the poetry chapbook The Book as Knife (Ravenna Press, 2021) and the narrative nonfiction book The Immortal Ten, the second edition of which was published by Baylor University Press in 2025.
His poems have appeared in Image, The Journal, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Lake Effect, Christianity & Literature, and Sugar House Review, among other publications, and his essays have been published in such journals as Literary Imagination, JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory, and Media, War & Conflict. His other awards include the John H. Jenkins Research Fellowship in Texas History from the Texas State Historical Association (2025) and prizes for his poetry from Spoon River Poetry Review and Descant.
He holds degrees in English from Baylor University (BA), The University of Georgia (MA), and Texas A&M University (PhD). A native of Ohio, he lives in Waco, Texas, and works at Baylor University, where he has served in institutional advancement for more than thirty years and has taught creative writing and American literature.