Shelley Ettinger

Poet, Fiction Writer

San Antonio, TX
Texas US

Author's Bio

Shelley Ettinger is the author of Vera’s Will (2015, Hamilton Stone Editions), called "a breathtaking achievement" in a starred Library Journal review. Her work is forthcoming or in Rawhead, The Bullpen, Screen Door Review, San Pedro River Review, Gaza Verse, Mizna, Foglifter, Beyond Queer Words, Allium, Gertrude, Rabble Review, Louisville Review, Radical Catalyst, Nimrod, Mississippi Review, Cream City Review, Stone Canoe and many other journals. She has had residencies at the Anderson Center and the Saltonstall Arts Colony, is a Lambda Literary Foundation Emerging Writers’ Retreat fellow and a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop. Shelley has been a queer anti-racist social-justice activist for over fifty years.

Publications & Prizes

Fiction

Book:
Vera's Will (Hamilton Stone Editions, 2015)
Journals: ,
Avery Anthology
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Blithe House Quarterly
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Crate
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La Petite Zine
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Liberation Lit
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Lodestar Quarterly
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Mississippi Review
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Newtown Literary
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The Wild Word
Prizes won: 

Barbara Deming/Money for Women; Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize shortlist; Jacar Press poetry chapbook finalist; Nine Syllables Press chapbook finalist

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
LGBTQ
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Detroit
Raised in: 
Detroit, MI
Michigan
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Last update: Aug 27, 2026