Bio + Resume

Shelley Stenhouse recently 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, 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 work is forthcoming in NYQ’s anthology, Without a Doubt, and in The Common. 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.