Shira Dentz

Shira Dentz is the author of five books including SISYPHUSINA (PANK Books, 2020, and due to be republished by Astrophil Press in Spring 2025), winner of the Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize 2021; and how do i net thee (Salmon Poetry, Ireland, 2018), a National Poetry Series finalist; as well as two chapbooks including FLOUNDERS (Essay Press, 2017). Shira's poetry, hybrid and visual writing, nonfiction, criticism, and conversations have been featured in diverse venues such as Poetry, The American Poetry Review, National Public Radio, and The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series (Poets.org). She is the recipient of awards including an Academy of American Poets' Larry Levis Prize, The Poetry Society of America's Lyric Poem and Cecil Hemley Memorial Award, Painted Bride Quarterly’s Poetry Prize, and Electronic Poetry Review’s Discovery Award. In 2025, she received NELLE Literary Journal’s Three Sisters Award for creative nonfiction and a joint NYS/NEA Arts Grant for an image-text work in progress. Currently, she works at The Research Foundation at SUNY and lives in upstate NY.