Shyla Ann Shehan is an analytical Virgo from the Midwest. She has an MFA from the University of Nebraska where she received an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her work has appeared in The Pinch, Moon City Review, Door is a Jar Magazine, Anti-Heroin Chic, Inverted Syntax, Drunk Monkeys, and elsewhere. She’s co-founder and curator of The Good Life Review and lives in Omaha with her partner, children, and three cats. ❀ For more, please visit shylashehan.com.
Selected work
- Fiction
1
- Poetry
23
- Other
4
Massage Poem
Drunk Monkeys, 2023
Will You Buy This Person's Book Please
Write or Die Magazine, 2023
Bun in the Oven
The Pinch, 2024
What now? Yeah, I could eat
Anti-Heroin Chic, 2024
Found in the Old Farmer’s Almanac 2019
Random Sample Review, 2024
All the Life That Wants To Live
NELLE, 2024
She Paid No Mind
Moon City Review, 2024
Love as a web / begins
Thin Air Magazine, 2024
Something Knocking & At the End of my Shower
Door is a Jar Magazine, 2023
Trapped in Line
Brushfire Literature & Arts Journal, 2023
Hiring Death's Transcriptionist
Blood Tree Literature, 2023
Untamed River
Stone Poetry Quarterly, 2023
Giving Thanks
Naugatuck River Review, 2023
In the Kitchen of Grief
Midwest Quarterly, 2023
My mood is as punctual and unstable as the tide
Eclectica, 2023
Reading the Streets
The Ocotillo Review, 2022
Primal Epeolatry & This One Calls For Takeout
Isotrope Literary Journal, 2022
Using the Words I and Can't
The Pine Cone Review, 2022
Open Window
Wild Roof Journal, 2021
Trying to Read in the Castle Library
Gyroscope Review, 2021
Bananas
Plainsongs Poetry Magazine (hiatus), 2021
Life and Death at the Castle
HeartWood Literary Magazine, 2021
Still Life at Hefflinger Park
The Closed Eye Open, 2021
Fifteen Billboards
The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, 2021
Geometry and Other Tragedies
Tangled Locks Journal, 2021
My Divorce is a Dead Bug Trapped in the Light Fixture in My Shower
GRIFFEL, 2021
Stars Under Glass
The Decadent Review, 2021
This
Prometheus Dreaming, 2020