Shira Dentz - Bio

Shira Dentz is the author of a book of poems, black seeds on a white dish (Shearsman Books), nominated for the PEN/Osterweil Award 2011, a chapbook titled Leaf Weather (Tilt Press), and a forthcoming hybrid prose/poetry book, door of thin skins (Cavan Kerry Press). Her poems and stories have appeared widely in journals such as The American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, New American Writing, and The Brooklyn Rail, and featured on NPR, Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, has a doctorate from the University of Utah, and is Drunken Boat’s new Book Review Editor. Her website is www.shiradentz.com