Bio + Resume

Shelley Stenhouse was recently shortlisted for the 2025 Moth Poetry Prize and won third place in Australian Book Review’s 2024 Jolley Prize for her short story “M.” Previously, she won the Palette Poetry Prize (judged by Edward Hirsch, President of the Guggenheim Foundation), the Pavement Saw Press Award for her poetry collection PANTS, a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship, and an Allen Ginsberg Award. She was a National Poetry Series finalist, had two Pushcart Prize nominations (one by Tony Hoagland), and three residencies at Yaddo Art Colony. Her poetry collection, Impunity, was published by NYQ Books. Her poem, “AIDS,” has been quoted in Poet’s Market. Her poetry and fiction have been published in New York Quarterly, Antioch Review, Prairie Schooner, The Common, 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). Her story “Another Suburban House in the ‘70s” is forthcoming in The Iowa Review and her new collection, Beanstalk, will be published this spring. 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.