Britton Gildersleeve

author of Trading with Devils

November 4, 2015

A native of Tulsa, Britton Gildersleeve spent most of her childhood and adolescence in Southeast Asia. Following her marriage, she lived for 10 years in the Middle East. Her award-winning work has appeared in New Millenium Writings, Nimrod, Passager, Spoon River, Atlas Poetica and the Florida Review, among other journals. She is the director of a federal non-profit – the Oklahoma State University Writing Project – at OSU, where she also teaches. Gildersleeve has a MA in English letters from the University of Tulsa and a Ph.D. in creative writing from OSU. Pudding House Publications has published both her chapbooks: The Privilege of Breath and the 2010 Trading with Devils.

Trading with Devils is a collection of poetry exploring the creative processes and trade-offs of women poets and artists.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2011-honorees/britton-gildersleeve

Last Updated: 14 January 2022