Honora Spicer

I am a writer and experiential educator.

In 2021-22, I am a Mellon Humanities Collaborative Faculty Fellow at El Paso Community College/ University of Texas at El Paso, leading a research project entitled Carceral Geography in El Paso, TX: Using Audio Walks to Experience Disappeared Histories.

I draw on my graduate studies at Harvard University (MA in History, 2015) and at Oxford University (BA in History and English, 2013). I have designed and led expeditionary learning programs, teaching college-accredited courses in literature, history, and Spanish language while mountain biking, mountaineering, and paddling. I currently teach US History at El Paso Community College. I also teach an open enrollment course in Place-based US History centered on orienting to the question ‘How do we know where we are and when we are, in relation to US History?’

My translations and writing have been published in Asymptote, Latin American Literature Today, World Literature Today, The Rumpus, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. I am currently working on translating the work of Victoria Guerrero Peirano alongside my sister, Anastatia Spicer. I am also working on a documentary poetry project called Post Bond, focusing on one square mile in east El Paso containing the ICE detention center, migrant shelter, post office exchange, airport runway and NASA forward operating location.