Shira Dentz is the author of five books, most recently SISYPHUSINA (Astrophil Press), winner of the Eugene Paul Nassar Prize, as well as three chapbooks including FLOUNDERS (Essay Press). Shira’s writing and conversations appear in diverse venues including Poetry, American Poetry Review, Iowa Review, Conjunctions, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, The Baffler, Blackbird, Pleiades, Gulf Coast, Brooklyn Rail, Cincinnati Review, Black Warrior Review, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Lana Turner, VOLT, Annulet, Apartment, New American Writing, Quarter After Eight, The Rumpus, Hanging Loose, Verse Daily, Poetry Daily, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day Series (Poets.org) and NPR. She’s the recipient of awards including an Academy of American Poets Prize, Poetry Society of America’s Lyric Poem and Cecil Hemley Awards, NELLE Literary Journal’s Three Sisters Award for creative nonfiction, and an NEA/NYS arts grant. Currently, she lives and works in upstate NY. More at shiradentz.com.