Meet Paige

In Spring 2013 Paige graduated summa cum laude from UB with a Bachelor of Arts degree, double majoring in English and French Language and Literature.  From UB she went on to the University of Maine, earning a Master's of Arts degree (also summa cum laude) in English with concentrations in Gender and Literature, and Poetry and Poetics. She continued to utilize her French language skills in graduate school, receiving a Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship to study Québécois History and Literature at McGill University in 2015. Her M.A. thesis, mentored by poet and Professor Jennifer Moxley, was a translation into English of the French-Canadian novel, Querelle d’un squelette avec son double by Ying Chen.

Since July 2016 she has been Education Coordinator for Explore Buffalo, a non-profit organization providing tours and other opportunities to find out what makes Buffalo such a great place to live.  In January 2019, Buffalo Niagara 360 honored Paige with a Spotlight Professional Award in recognition of her contributions to the Buffalo Niagara region as a "young rising leader."

Also a poet and writer, Paige has published a book of poetry, Puddles of an Open (BlazeVOX, 2016) and a chapbook, MTL/BFL//ÉTE/QUINZE (Buffalo Ochre Papers, 2016). She served as an Editorial Advisor for Ursa Literary Review, Paideuma: Modern & Contemporary Poetry & Poetics, the anthology My Next Heart: New Buffalo Poetry (BlazeVOX, 2017), and the upcoming Ghost City Press 2019 Summer Micro-Chap series. Her poems, reviews, and articles have appeared in Peach Mag, the Buffalo News, Step Out Buffalo, Chebacco: The Magazine of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society, Rain Taxi Review of Books, & others. She curates and hosts the 4^th Friday Reading Series at Dog Ears Bookstore as well as the annual PoetExpo at the Burchfield Penney Art Center.

In the fall of 2018 Paige applied for a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Senegal and the Teaching Assistant Program in France. After teaching abroad, Paige plans to get her Ph.D. in Translation Theory to teach & translate francophone literature not traditionally represented in the Western canon.

“I am so grateful for the supportive community I found in the Romance Languages Department at UB. Without these professors and mentors, I would never have had the courage to study abroad in France as an undergrad, or to pursue my current goal of teaching English abroad.”