I am a PhD candidate in History at Harvard writing POST BOND: Postal Constructions of Bordered Space in El Paso, Texas, 1845-1967. I research physical and textual infrastructures of the U.S. state.

I lead workshops on counter-mapping in poetry and have formerly taught at El Paso Community College and outdoor expedition-based schools.

I publish literary translations, essays and poetry. Architectures of Disappearance, my Commentary in Jacket2, features poetic work that responds to geographic and linguistic architectures of movement constriction.

I am part of the leadership of Cardboard House Press and des/centro de poesía.

I live in Providence, RI.

Contact: hspicer@fas.harvard.edu