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)
Because the Moon is Moving Away
Burningword, Issue #115
October 2025
When I say this poem comes to me
Summerset Review
Autumn 2025
Iron Pyrite is the Most Foolish Mineral
The Sunlight Press
August 2024
Found in the Old Farmer’s Almanac 2019
Random Sample Review
Issue 10
August 2024
What now? Yeah, I could eat
Anti-Heroin Chic
August 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
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Explorations
Best of the Net Nomination for
Muddy Lines
South 85 Review
April 2025
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.
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Academy of American Poets
University and College Poetry Prize
2020 Winner
University of Nebraska, MFA
Posted on poets.org
Mining the Gap (WSC Press, 2025)
Unsuspecting Cinderella (Finishing Line Press, 2022)
Events (See all)
Plains Writer Series
Thursday November 20th, 2025 @ 2PM
Humanities Building, Wayne State College
Wayne, Nebraska
Poetry Reading, Toddfather & Friends
at Pageturners, Omaha
Friday May 2nd, 2025
Academy of American Poets
2024 Helen W. Kenefick Poetry Prize Judge
with The Good Life Review
Not all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Shyla Shehan 