Raena Shirali
MFA
Assistant Professor
Education
M.F.A., Creative Writing, The Ohio State University
B.A., English and Creative Writing, College of Charleston
Courses Taught
ENGL 115: Public Speaking
Recent Presentations/Publications
Books
- GILT (YesYesBooks, 2017)
Poems
- “lucky inhabitant” & “self-portrait in the oppressor’s vernacular,” They Rise Like A Wave: An
Anthology of Asian American Women Poets (Blue Oak Press), Forthcoming. - “Jodhpur, Jharkhand, Philadelphia” and “GOD OF NEW BEGINNINGS, I CELEBRATE
YOU POORLY,” The Rumpus, 2019. - “ojha : rituals,” Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day, 2019.
- “daayan at gold streak river,” Poetry Daily, 2019.
- “I MAKE A TOOTHPICK DIADEM & CROWN MYSELF TOKEN,” The Nation, 2018.
- “at first, trying to reach the accused,” “before plantations, women rustle the brush together,”
& “daayan senses the ojha,” American Poetry Review, 2018. - “daayan, feet facing forward” & “the procession,” Blackbird, 2017.
- “Kopili, 8:30am,” Crab Orchard Review, 2017.
- “daayan summons the village ‘goddess,’” BOAAT, 2017.
- “scenario three : ways you asked for it,” Day One, 2017.
- “DARE I WRITE IT,” Dusie, 2016.
- “tristesse” & “Dharavi,” Indiana Review, 2016.
- “Holi: Equinox Approaches,” Pushcart Prize XL: Best of the Small Presses, 2016.
- “[feet planted],” “Fishing With Broken Lure,” & “cells:,” Crazyhorse, 2015.
- “black magic,” Ninth Letter, 2015.
- “New Year as an Extremophile,” Quarterly West, May 2014.
- “At the Peninsula’s Tipping Point,” The Nervous Breakdown, 2013.
Book Reviews
- Symposium on Analicia Sotelo’s Virgin, West Branch, Winter 2019.
- “The Authors of Our Own Unknowns: Self-Invention in Women’s’ Poetry” (a review of Traci Brimhall’s Saudade, Victoria Chang’s Barbie Chang, & Shayla Lawson’s I Think I’m Ready to See Frank Ocean), West Branch, Winter 2019.
- “Poetry of Place in Debuts by Women of Color” (a review of Tiana Clark’s Equilibrium, Claudia Cortese’s Wasp Queen, Michelle Lin’s A House Made of Water, & Shelley Wong’s Rare Birds), West Branch, Winter 2018.
Awards and Honors
- PEN America Writer’s Grant, 2019.
- Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award, Binghamton University, 2018.
- VIDA Scholarship, 2018.
- Philip Roth Poetry Residency, 2017.
- Pushcart Prize XL: Best of the Small Presses, 2016.
- Cosmonauts Avenue Poetry Prize, 2016.
- Gulf Coast Poetry Prize, 2014.
- Boston Review/”Discovery” Poetry Prize, 2013.
- University Fellowship, The Ohio State University, 2012–2013.
Additional Info
Editorial Positions
- Senior Poetry Editor, Muzzle Magazine, 2016-Present.
- Poetry Editor, Vinyl Magazine, 2017-2019.
- Peer Reviewer, Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies. 2015-2016.
- Reviews Editor, The Journal, 2013-2015