C. R. Grimmer, who also goes by Chelsea Grimmer and uses she/her and they/them pronouns interchangeably, is currently Lecturer, and Assistant Director of Digital Pedagogy in the UW Department of English. Recently, they were supported by The Simpson Center for the Humanities' Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Public Humanities Fellowship. 

C. R. created and hosts The Poetry Vlog, has poems in journals such as POETRY Magazine, and has articles in anthologies and journals such as "The Comparatist."

Their book, O–(ezekiel's wife), is available from GASHER Journal and Press in collaboration with Colleen Burner and Judy Twedt. Their current scholarly book project, Poetry as Public Scholarship: Activist Poetics in the Time of Social Media, combines research analysis and practitioner discourses to examine the relationships between racial capitalism, popularized poetry, digital public scholarship methods.

To learn more about C. R., visit crgrimmer.com, which also hosts  The Poetry Vlog, a YouTube Teaching Channel and Podcast dedicated to building social justice coalitions through poetry, cultural studies, and related arts dialogues. 7 students each quarter for Season 3 support the production and of TPV materials. Meet the team here