Shira Dentz is the author of five books — SISYPHUSINA (PANK Books; soon to be republished by Astrophil Press), winner of the Eugene Paul Nassar Prize, how do i net thee (Salmon Poetry, Ireland), a National Poetry Series finalist, the sun a blazing zero (Lavender Ink/Diálogos), door of thin skins (CavanKerry Press), and black seeds on a white dish (Shearsman, UK), as well as two chapbooks including FLOUNDERS (Essay Press). Shira's poetry, hybrid and visual writing, nonfiction, criticism, and conversations have been featured in diverse venues such as Poetry, American Poetry Review, Iowa Review, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Pleiades, Gulf Coast, Seneca Review, Brooklyn Rail, Cincinnati Review, jubilat, Black Warrior Review, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, FIELD, Lana Turner, VOLT, Annulet, Apartment, New American Writing, Diagram, Dialogist, Quarter After Eight, Idaho Review, Berlin Lit, New Orleans Review, The Rumpus, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day Series (Poets.org), Verse Daily, Poetry Daily, NPR, and The Poetry Society of America and The Poetry Foundation websites. She is the recipient of awards including an Academy of American Poets Prize and Poetry Society of America's Lyric Poem and Cecil Hemley Awards. Most recently, she’s the recipient of NELLE Literary Journal’s Three Sisters Award for creative nonfiction and an NEA/NYS arts grant for an image/text work-in-progress. Her creative work has been recognized with fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and MacDowell, and appears/is forthcoming in anthologies including Witness: An Anthology of Documentary Poems (Wesleyan University Press). More at shiradentz.com