Shelley Puhak

Writer in Residence - English, Writing

Recent Publications

Books
Stalin in Aruba. NY: Black Lawrence Press, 2009.

Anthologies
A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry. U of Ohio Akron P, forthcoming Fall 2011: “Nadya to Stalin, 1925”
Mourning Sickness: Stories & Poems About Miscarriage and Infant Loss. Omni Arts LLC, 2008: “Memento Mori: Premonitions”

Journals (selected)
Feminist Studies (Fall 2010): “Sex Ed on the Porchsteps”
Gargoyle. (forthcoming Fall 2011): “The Death Quartet”
Hawaii Pacific Review, (2008: Vol 22): “Cousin Kira”
Loch Raven Review (2008: Volume 4): “Dearest Ellen,” “The Lady Laudanum-Drinker, 1889,” “Miss Perkins’ Resignation Letter,” and “My Life with Perseus”
The London Magazine U.K. (Feb/March 2010): “The Rock”
The Louisville Review (forthcoming 2011): “Why Subterranean Animals Evolve Eyeless” and “A Fairy Tale for My Second Son”
The Nebraska Review (Summer 2001): “Family Portrait”
New South (Spring/Summer 2009): “Letter to Mary Shelley”
The Southeast Review (August 2009): “The Spring Randy Left the Game on a Stretcher.”
StorySouth (Spring 2010: Issue 29): “The Lexington Market Fire”

Awards and Prizes (selected)
Towson University Prize for Literature, 2010
Finalist, Emerging Writers Fellowship, The Writer’s Center, 2010
Finalist, Orlando Poetry Prize, A Room of Her Own Foundation, 2010
Southeast Review Summer Writing Regimen Contest Winner, 2009
Almeda Boulton Award, National Federation State Poetry Societies, 2009
Finalist, St. Lawrence Book Award, 2007
Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant for Poetry, 2007