Dentz, Shira

Shira Dentz's poems and stories have appeared in many journals including The American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, Western Humanities Review, jubilat, Brooklyn Rail, The Black Warrior Review, and BOMBAY GIN, and have been featured on Poetry Daily and National Public Radio. She is the recipient of various awards including an Academy of American Poets' Prize, and The Poetry Society of America's Lyric Poem Award and Cecil Hemely Memorial Award. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and is currently Poetry Co-editor of Quarterly West, a Fellow at the Tanner Center for the Humanities