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)
Upcoming Events
National Poetry Month
Tuesday, April 14th, 2026
6:30 PM at Benson Theatre
Details on Facebook.
Explorations
Best of the Net Nomination for
Muddy Lines
South 85 Review
April 2025
This
Academy of American Poets
University and College
Poetry Prize Winner
University of Nebraska, MFA
Gallery
Not all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Shyla Shehan 