Shira Dentz is the author of two books, door of thin skins (CavanKerry Press), and black seeds on a white dish (Shearsman), and two chapbooks, Leaf Weather (Tilt/Shearsman) and Sisyphusina (forthcoming from Red Glass Books). Her writing has appeared in many journals, including The American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, and New American Writing, and featured online at The Academy of American Poets’ website (Poets.org), NPR, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily. Her awards include an Academy of American Poets’ Prize, the Poetry Society of America’s Lyric Poem Award and Cecil Hemley Memorial Award, Electronic Poetry Review’s Discovery Award, and Painted Bride Quarterly’s Poetry Prize.

A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Shira has a PhD in creative writing and literature from the University of Utah, and is currently Lecturer in Creative Writing at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate New York. She is also Drunken Boat's Reviews Editor.  Find her online at www.shiradentz.com.