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
Twilight Meditation
(O:JA&L) Open: Journal of Arts & Letters
January 2026
Ice Cream Drips Down My Fingers at Sunset
New York Quarterly, NYQ #69.1
January 2026
Because the Moon is Moving Away
Burningword, Issue #115
October 2025
When I say this poem comes to me
Summerset Review
Autumn 2025
What now? Yeah, I could eat
Anti-Heroin Chic
August 2024
& more …
Books
Mining the Gap (WSC Press, 2025)
Unsuspecting Cinderella (Finishing Line Press, 2022)
Explorations
Best of the Net Nomination for
Muddy Lines
South 85 Review
April 2025
This
Academy of American Poets
University and College Poetry Prize
2020 Winner
University of Nebraska, MFA
Events
Visiting Alum Reading, UNO MFA Residency
at The Lied Lodge
Thursday Jan, 1st @7PM
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
Gallery
Not all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Shyla Shehan 