Shyla Shehan is an analytical Virgo from the US Midwest. Her most noteworthy accomplishment to date is divorcing her career as a Healthcare IT Integration Specialist. Since then, she has pledged her undying love and fealty to Poetry but has so far refused to get matching tattoos. But wait! There’s more…
Select Publications (See all)
She Paid No Mind
Moon City Review
2024
Untamed River
Published online by Stone Poetry Quarterly
August 2023
My mood is as punctual and unstable as the tide
Published online by Eclectica
Vol. 27 No. 3
July/Aug 2023
Massage Poem
Published online by Drunk Monkeys
Vol. 8 No. 2
February 2023
Geometry and Other Tragedies
Published online by Tangled Locks
December 22, 2021
Stars Under Glass
Published online by The Decadent Review
October 16, 2021
Fifteen Billboards
Published online by The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts / Matter Press
August 27, 2021
Open Window
Published online by Wild Roof Journal
Issue #6
January 4, 2021
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Explorations
A Double American Sonnet for Terrance Hayes
Nebraska Poetry Society
2021 Poetry Open
First Place Winner
Honorable Mention for “What I Would Give”
The Good Life Review ~ An online literary publication based out of Omaha, Nebraska. Founded in 2020. Accepting submissions here.
This
Academy of American Poets
University and College Poetry Prize
2020 Winner
University of Nebraska, MFA
Posted on poets.org
Unsuspecting Cinderella
A collection of poems released by Finishing Line Press spring 2022. Available now in the publisher’s online bookstore here and Amazon.
Events & Appearances (See all)
AWP Conference and Book Fair
February 7-10, 2024
Kansas City, Missouri
Book Fair Exhibition Table #T913
with The Good Life Review
Not all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Shyla Shehan 