Shyla Shehan

Poet

Omaha, NE
Nebraska US
Email: 
[email protected]
Website: 
shylashehan.com/
Twitter/X: 
@shyspark

Author's Bio

Shyla Ann Shehan is an analytical Virgo from the Midwest. She holds an MFA from the University of Nebraska, and her writing has appeared in The Pinch, Moon City Review, Summerset Review, Puerto del Sol, and elsewhere. Her poetry collection, Mining the Gap, was published by WSC Press in 2025. She’s the lead editor and curator of The Good Life Review and lives in Nebraska with her husband and three cats. ❀ For more, please visit shylashehan.com.

Education: 
University of Nebraska, Omaha MFA

Publications & Prizes

Book:
Mining the Gap (Wayne State College Press, 2025)
Chapbook:
Unsuspecting Cinderella (Finishing Line Press, 2022)
Journals:
Anti-Heroin Chic
,
Brushfire
,
Burning Word
,
Closed Eye Open
,
Door is a Jar Magazine
,
Drunk Monkeys
,
Eclectica Magazine
,
Griffel
,
High Shelf Press
,
I-70 Review
,
Inverted Syntax
,
Isotrope
,
Journal of Compressed Creative Arts
,
Midwest Quarterly
,
Naugatuck River Review
,
Ocotillo Review
,
Pinch
,
Puerto del Sol
,
Qwerty
,
Random Sample Review
,
San Antonio Review
,
South 85 Journal
,
Stone Poetry Quarterly
,
Summerset Review
,
The Citron Review
,
The New York Quarterly
,
Thin Air Magazine
,
Whitefish Review
Prizes won: 

She has received an Academy of American Poets Prize, Pushcart nomination, Best of the Net Nomination, and first place in the Nebraska Poetry Society’s Poetry Open.

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
American
Born in: 
Council Bluffs, IA
Iowa
Raised in: 
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Last update: Oct 14, 2026