Shira Dentz
Current City, State, Country
Birth City, State, Country
Biography
Shira Dentz iz the author of five books including SISYPHUSINA (Astrophil Press), winner of the Eugene Paul Nassar Prize, how do I net thee (Salmon Poetry), a National Poetry Series finalist, the sun a blazing zero (Lavender Ink/Diálogos), door of thin skins (CavanKerry Press, ), and black seeds on a white dish (Shearsman Books), featured in Poets & Writers’ Annual Ten Debut Poets, as well as two chapbooks, Leaf Weather (Shearsman Books) and 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, Conjunctions, 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, Hanging Loose, 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, Painted Bride Quarterly’s Poetry Prize, Electronic Poetry Review’s Discovery Award, NELLE Literary Journal’s Three Sisters Award for creative nonfiction, and an NEA/NYS arts grant for an image-text work. Her creative work has been recognized with fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and MacDowell, and appears/is forthcoming in anthologies including Witness: An Anthology of Documentary Poems (Wesleyan University Press). She was Drunken Boat’s Reviews Editor and Tarpaulin Sky’s Special Features Editor for many years and holds an MFA from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and a PhD from the University of Utah. Currently, she lives and works in upstate NY.
Published Works
Poetry
how do I net thee (Salmon Poetry)
the sun a blazing zero (Lavender Ink/Diálogos)
black seeds on a white dish (Shearsman Books)
Leaf Weather (Shearsman Books)
SISYPHUSINA (Astrophil Press)
door of thin skins (CavanKerry Press)
FLOUNDERS (Essay Press)
Author Site
Links to Sample Works
Video Reading
Education
Iowa Writers’ Workshop. M.F.A.
University of Utah, Ph.D.