About me
Shira Dentz is the author of five books including SISYPHUSINA (2nd edition, Astrophil Press), winner of the Paul Nassar Prize, and how do i net thee (Salmon Poetry, Ireland), a National Poetry Series Finalist, as well as two chapbooks including FLOUNDERS (Essay Press). Shira's poetry, hybrid and visual writing, nonfiction, criticism, and conversations have been featured in diverse venues including Poetry, American Poetry Review, Iowa Review, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Blackbird, Pleiades, Gulf Coast, Brooklyn Rail, Cincinnati Review, Black Warrior Review, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Lana Turner, VOLT, Annulet, Apartment, New American Writing, Quarter After Eight, The Rumpus, Verse Daily, Poetry Daily, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day Series (Poets.org) and NPR. She’s the recipient of awards including an Academy of American Poets Prize, Poetry Society of America's Lyric Poem and Cecil Hemley Awards, NELLE Literary Journal’s Three Sisters Award for creative nonfiction, and an NEA/NYS arts grant. More at shiradentz.com
