Shira Dentz is the author of five books including SISYPHUSINA (PANK, 2020), and two chapbooks. Her writing appears widely in venues such as Poetry, American Poetry Review, Cincinnati Review, Iowa Review, New American Writing, jubilat, Plume, Lana Turner, Denver Quarterly, Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day Series (Poets.org), and NPR. She’s a recipient of awards including an Academy of American Poets’ Prize, Poetry Society of America’s Lyric Poem Award, and Poetry Society of America's Cecil Hemley Memorial Award. Shira is currently Special Features Editor at Tarpaulin Sky and lives in New York. More about her writing can be found on her website.
