Read MoreShira Dentz is the author of five books including SISYPHUSINA (PANK Books and soon to be reissued by Astrophil Press), winner of the Nassar Prize 2021, door of thin skins (CavanKerry), the sun a blazing zero (Lavender Ink), black seeds on a white dish (Shearsman, UK), 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 Poetry, American Poetry Review, Iowa Review, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Pleiades, Seneca Review, Gulf Coast, Brooklyn Rail, Cincinnati Review, FIELD, jubilat, Black Warrior Review, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Lana Turner, VOLT, Apartment, Annulet, Diagram, New American Writing, Quarter After Eight, Idaho Review, The Rumpus, NPR, Verse Daily, Poetry Daily, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day Series (Poets.org) and The Poetry Society of America and The Poetry Foundation websites. She’s a recipient of awards including an Academy of American Poets Prize and Poetry Society of America's Lyric Poem and Cecil Hemley Awards, and most recently Nelle Literary Journal’s Three Sisters Award for creative nonfiction. Her creative work has been recognized with fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and MacDowell. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a PhD from the University of Utah, and currently lives and works in upstate NY. More at shiradentz.com