{"id":3275,"date":"2023-12-05T10:13:57","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T15:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/artsci\/?post_type=directory&#038;p=3275"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:25:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T12:25:36","slug":"shawn-bowers-buxton-mfa","status":"publish","type":"directory","link":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/artsci\/campus-directory\/shawn-bowers-buxton-mfa\/","title":{"rendered":"Shawn Bowers Buxton, M.F.A."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Shawn Bowers Buxton publishes poetry under the pen name, Anita Cantillo. Her work has appeared in various literary journals including <em>Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review<\/em>, <em>Juke Joint<\/em>, and <em>Azahares<\/em>. In 2022, her poem took first prize in <em>Blue Mesa Review\u2019s<\/em> annual national contest. She has been a finalist in other contests as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shawn regularly presents at national conferences in the areas of general education, interfaith dialogue and competencies, first-year writing studies, and Latine literature, writing, and identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before working at Queens, Shawn was a high school English teacher and the creative director of a branding firm, where she named pharmaceutical drugs and consumer goods for launch in the public marketplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>M.F.A., Creative Writing for Poetry, Queens University of Charlotte<br>B.A., Corporate Communications, Queens University of Charlotte<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography Shawn Bowers Buxton publishes poetry under the pen name, Anita Cantillo. Her work has appeared in various literary journals including Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Juke Joint, and Azahares. In 2022, her poem took first prize in Blue Mesa Review\u2019s annual national contest. She has been a finalist in other contests as well. Shawn regularly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5018,"template":"","class_list":["post-3275","directory","type-directory","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directory\/3275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directory"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/directory"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directory\/3275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3593,"href":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directory\/3275\/revisions\/3593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.queens.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}