Shanta Lee Honeycutt

Shanta Lee Honeycutt is an award-winning visual artist, writer across genres, author, and scholar who often says she is a “…practitioner of entanglement” for all of the ways she brings things together in her work. Winner of the New England Poetry Club’s Grant for Poetic Achievement, Abel Meeropol Social Justice Writing Award, and a 2024-25 National Arts Strategies Creative Community Fellow (New England), her work has been widely featured in Ploughshares, Visual Poetry Journal,  the Edinburgh University Press journal, CounterText: A Journal for the Study of the Post-Literary, the Poetry Foundation,  Harper’s Magazine, The Massachusetts Review, ITERANT Literary Magazine, Palette Poetry, Prism, Ms. Magazine, and DAME Magazine, alongside of her former radio segment she created, produced, and reported for Vermont Public. 

Shanta Lee Honeycutt’s books include: Do Words Dream Themselves Into Silence Told In Riddles? (Harbor Editions, February 2026); Co-Editor with Philip Brady of the anthology, Sign & Breath: Voice and the Literary Tradition (Etruscan Press, 2025); A double volume of two chapbooks, Close Is... and Hopscotch Between the Living and the Dead  (Diode Editions, 2024); This Is How They Teach You How to Want It...The Slaughter: A Field Guide for the Hunted & the Hunter, The Dead-Alive, The Live-Dead Ones, The... (Harbor Editions, 2024); Black Metamorphoses—named a finalist in the 2021 Hudson Prize, shortlisted for the 2021 Cowles Poetry Book Prize, and longlisted for the 2021 Idaho Poetry Prize—illustrated by Alan Blackwell (Etruscan Press, 2023); and GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak Woman in Woke Tongues (Diode Editions, 2021), winner of the Vermont Book Award.

Shanta Lee Honeycutt also has a broad professional wingspan — which includes academic mentor programs and a statewide internship program for two different organizations — that stayed in operation for 20+ years long after her tenure. Her 2024-25 National Arts Strategies Creative Community Fellowship culminated in a website, Foodmemorystories.com (launched in late 2025). The site is a digital exhibition — up until late 2027 —  that features the stories and art that Honeycutt collected regionally, nationally (and some with an international flavor). Honeycutt has an MFA in Creative Non-Fiction and Poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts, an MBA from University of Hartford, and an undergraduate degree in Women, Gender, and Sexuality from Trinity College.  Explore her visual and written work by visiting Shantalee.com and you can explore my linktree Shanta Lee Honeycutt - All The Things.