Books

Mining the Gap

A collection of poems released by WSC Press in autumn 2025. Available on Amazon.

Select poems from Mining the Gap can be read as they were first published online:

Untamed River (Stone Poetry Quarterly, August 2023)
Fifteen Billboards (The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts / Matter Press, August 27, 2021)
Open Window (Wild Roof Journal, Issue #6, January 4, 2021)

Unsuspecting Cinderella

A collection of poems released by Finishing Line Press in spring 2022. Available at the FLP bookstore here and on Amazon.

Select poems from Unsuspecting Cinderella can be read as they were first published online:

Life and Death at the Castle (Published by Heartwood Literary Magazine Issue #11, May 2021)
Castle Recursion and Castle Omnipresence (Published by The Write Launch, February 2021)
Pockets Full of Rocks (Published by Sad Girl Diaries, December 2020)


Not all those who wander are lost.

J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Shyla Shehan
Omaha, Nebraska

November 2025 CV