Bio + Resume

Shelley Stenhouse was the winner of the 2019 Palette Poetry Prize (judged by Edward Hirsch, President of the Guggenheim Foundation). She won the Pavement Saw Press Award for her poetry collection, PANTS, and her latest collection, Impunity, was published by NYQ Books. She received a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship, an Allen Ginsberg Award, was a National Poetry Series finalist, had two Pushcart prize nominations (one by Tony Hoagland), and three residencies at Yaddo Art Colony. Her poetry and fiction have been published in New York Quarterly, Antioch Review, Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, Nimrod International Journal, Margie, Third Coast, Brooklyn Rail, Washington Square, Enizagam, and Poetry After 9/11: An Anthology of New York Poets (among others). This year, she will be published in the upcoming NYQ anthology Without A Doubt. Shelley has read on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. She has taught workshops at 92nd Street Y, NYU, Hunter College Elementary School, and Stuyvesant High School.