Shira Dentz and Jessica Treat at Writers Read – June 26

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Shira Dentz is the author of two books, Black Seeds on a White Dish (Shearsman, 2011), and Door of Thin Skins (CavanKerry Press, 2013), a hybrid of prose, poetry, and visual elements and a tale that unfolds in a psychotherapist’s and a state prosecutor’s office and the mind of the poet regarding it all. She is also the author of two chapbooks, Leaf Weather (Tilt Press/Shearsman), and Sisyphusina (forthcoming from Red Glass Books).

Her writing has appeared widely in journals including The American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, and New American Writing, and featured online at The Academy of American Poets’ site (Poets.org), NPR, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily. Her awards include an Academy of American Poets’ Prize, the Poetry Society of America’s Lyric Poem and Cecil Hemley Memorial Awards, Electronic Poetry Review’s Discovery Award, and Painted Bride Quarterly’s Poetry Prize. A graduate of the Iowa Writers‘ Workshop, she has a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Utah, and is currently Drunken Boat‘s Reviews Editor and Lecturer in Creative Writing at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Find her online at shiradentz.com.

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Jessica Treat is the author of three collections of short fiction: A Robber in the House (Coffee House Press, 1993), Not a Chance (FC2, 2000), and Meat Eaters & Plant Eaters (BOA Ed, 2009). The recipient of a Connecticut Commission on the Arts Award, the Dominion Review Fiction Award, and artist residencies at the Valparaiso Foundation in Spain, and the Civitella RanieriFoundation in Italy, she has had essays, prose poems, stories, and translations in numerous journals and anthologies, including Ms., Quarterly West, and American Literary Review.

Born in Canada, Jessica Treat grew up in New England and lived for a number of years in Mexico City. She now lives in the Berkshires and is Professor of English at Northwestern Connecticut College.

www.jessicatreat.com
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