U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón joins English faculty at TXST : Newsroom : Texas State University

Two-term U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón (2022-2025), has been named Distinguished Professor of Poetry at Texas State University.

Limón will join the Creative Writing faculty in the Department of English. She will conduct workshops with graduate students in the Creative Writing MFA program.

Limón is the author of seven books of poetry, including Startlement: New & Selected Poems; The Hurting Kind, which was a finalist for the Griffin Prize; The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award; and Bright Dead Things, which was named a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Award. 

Limón is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship and was named a 2024 Time Magazine Woman of the Year. She is the author of two picture books, In Praise of Mystery as well as And, Too, The Fox, and was the editor of the anthology You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World. Her short-form non-fiction book Against Breaking: On The Power of Poetry, was released in 2026.

Limón served as the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States—one of only a handful of poets to serve two terms. During her laureateship, she wrote, “In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa,” dedicated to NASA’s Europa Clipper mission. The poem was subsequently engraved on the spacecraft, which launched on Oct. 14, 2024. 

For more information about Limón, visit adalimon.com.