Shawn Bowers Buxton, M.F.A.

Instructor, English Literature & Creative Writing Department
Biography
Shawn Bowers Buxton has published poetry under the pen name, Anita Cantillo. Her work has appeared in Convergence, Iodine Poetry Journal and Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review.
Previous to working at Queens, Buxton 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.
Education
M.F.A., Creative Writing for Poetry, Queens University of Charlotte
B.A., Corporate Communications, Queens University of Charlotte